Project Gutenberg 2024-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 110 Bond, Nelson S. 1908 2006 Bond, Nelson Slade Bond, Nelson Danzell, George Fuqua, Robert 1905 1959 Tillotson, Joseph Wirt Tillotson, Joe W. Krupa, Julian S. 1913 1989 Lancelot Biggs cooks a pirate $aChicago, IL :$bZiff-Davis Publishing Company, $c1940. Lancelot Biggs, 2 Produced from Fantastic Adventures February 1940. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Lancelot Biggs cooks a pirate" by Nelson S. Bond is a science fiction short story published in the early 20th century, specifically in the 1940s. This whimsical tale revolves around the theme of cooking in outer space, presenting a unique blend of adventure and humor as the protagonist, Lancelot Biggs, discovers he has a knack for culinary science under duress. The story mixes elements of space travel, pirate lore, and an unusual focus on chemistry as it relates to cooking. In the narrative, the crew of the spacecraft "Saturn" finds itself in a dire predicament when their cook, affectionately known as Slops, is fired due to his exclusive tapioca diet. Unable to find a replacement in port, the first mate, Lancelot Biggs, is reluctantly appointed as the new cook. When they receive word of the notorious pirate Runt Hake on their trajectory, Biggs devises a clever plan to use a rare hormone, prolactin, in their meals to alter the pirates' personalities during a sumptuous dinner. The approach causes Hake and his crew to become overly affectionate, allowing the crew of the "Saturn" to outsmart them and save themselves. With humor, cleverness, and a touch of science, Bond crafts an entertaining exploration of the unexpected prowess of an unlikely protagonist in extreme circumstances. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240520080244bond 1940 US Reading ease score: 85.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Space ships -- Fiction Cooks -- Fiction Space pirates -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour Category: Adventure 60058 2025-07-29T08:56:25.965254 text/html 35155 2024-06-27T04:57:28 text/html 366179 2025-07-29T08:56:29.147255 application/epub+zip 364908 2025-07-29T08:56:27.162282 application/epub+zip 185720 2025-07-29T08:56:26.461280 application/epub+zip 830150 2025-07-29T08:56:30.574243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 822980 2025-07-29T08:56:28.626279 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 52188 2025-07-29T08:56:25.773249 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32294 2024-06-27T04:57:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18551 2025-07-29T08:56:30.723251 application/rdf+xml 28996 2025-07-29T08:56:26.768281 image/jpeg 4938 2025-07-29T08:56:26.609244 image/jpeg 896697 2025-07-29T08:56:25.984264 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia