Project Gutenberg 2024-07-12 Public domain in the USA. 92 Bond, Nelson S. 1908 2006 Bond, Nelson Slade Bond, Nelson Danzell, George Ferman, Harry 1906 1973 Furman, Harry The ghost of Lancelot Biggs $aNew York, NY :$bWeird Tales, $c1941. Produced from Weird Tales January 1942. Lancelot Biggs, 10 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Ghost of Lancelot Biggs" by Nelson S. Bond is a science fiction tale written in the early 20th century. This narrative blends elements of adventure and the supernatural, revolving around the titular character, Lancelot Biggs, who, after sacrificing himself in space to save his crew, appears as a ghost to convey critical information to his surviving shipmates. The book presents an intriguing exploration of friendship, sacrifice, and the boundaries of life and death through a futuristic lens. In this story, the main character, Bert Donovan, along with Captain Hanson and his daughter Diane, grapples with the reality of losing their friend Lancelot Biggs during a space mission. After receiving inexplicable news from their corporation and being compelled to embark on a new mission to Jupiter, they experience haunting apparitions of Biggs, sparking a mix of fear and hope. As they navigate through these mysterious occurrences, they uncover that Biggs has not perished but has found a way to communicate with them from the surface of Jupiter, where he has discovered a valuable resource called polarium. The crew must race against time and the gravitational threat of Jupiter to rescue their friend, relying on Biggs' clever ingenuity and their teamwork to survive and succeed in their mission. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240520100515bond 1941 US Reading ease score: 85.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Adventure 67556 2025-07-29T09:23:56.558261 text/html 42955 2024-07-12T13:06:38 text/html 390222 2025-07-29T09:24:00.083246 application/epub+zip 388979 2025-07-29T09:23:57.845283 application/epub+zip 168872 2025-07-29T09:23:57.078273 application/epub+zip 892449 2025-07-29T09:24:01.599219 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 884391 2025-07-29T09:23:59.501224 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 59452 2025-07-29T09:23:56.394286 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 39608 2024-07-12T13:06:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16789 2025-07-29T09:24:01.746295 application/rdf+xml 28092 2025-07-29T09:23:57.422233 image/jpeg 5051 2025-07-29T09:23:57.254240 image/jpeg 1290917 2025-07-29T09:23:56.580325 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