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...LANCELOT BIGGS: SPACEMAN (224 pp.)-Nelson Bond-Doubleday...
...specialized patter will probably give no trouble at all to admirers of Comic-Strip Hero Buck Rogers and his legion of spaceship-flying, planet-exploring imitators. But to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while...
...persistent will get the hang of it. Spaceman's hero may live in the 22nd Century, serve as third mate on a 200,000-m.p.h. Earth-to-Venus spaceship, and burble endlessly about ray guns and spaceports, but Lancelot himself is an old standby. Adorned with an "oversized Adam's apple, ears like a loving cup's handles, and a grin like a Saint Bernard puppy," Lancelot is that time-tested hero, the gangling young whippersnapper who loves to tinker-and more often than not tinkers his way to a fabulous discovery. With the greatest of ease...
...Lancelot Biggs is chiefly notable as a publisher's trailblazer. Until recently, science fiction has been available only in the comic books, in books for boys, and in the publications of a few obscure but dedicated specialized publishing houses (TIME, May 30, 1949). Last year Publisher Doubleday, with one eye on flying saucers and the other on an unexplored trade-book market, plunged into science fiction, quickly issued five titles (Lancelot Biggs is the sixth). With sales and reprint prospects looking brisk, U.S. readers can brace themselves for more long rides into space...
Marx and Freud both went wrong in over stressing the conflicts in human personality and society, declared Lancelot L. Whyte yesterday at a meeting of the Social Relations Society...