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...spaceman Friday crashed the sound barrier of the Langdell Law School Library, but found University regulations prohibited a long stay...
LANCELOT BIGGS: SPACEMAN (224 pp.)-Nelson Bond-Doubleday...
...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...