Nelson Slade Bond (1908–2006) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy whose work appeared mainly in the pulp magazines of the mid-twentieth century. Active in the heyday of the pulps, he concentrated on short fiction, using limited space to build imaginative premises, often with a light touch of fancy and unexpected turns that suited the tastes of popular-magazine readers of the time. His representative work, Lighter Than You Think, reflects this style. Constrained by the pulp outlets through which he published, his work circulated within a relatively narrow range and he never became widely known to the general public; publicly available information on him is limited, and few translations exist in China. Even so, he remains an author worth noting in studies of mid-twentieth-century American genre fiction and the ecology of the pulp magazines.
