About L Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp, (November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred books, including both novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors.
Series
Harold Shea
1. The Incomplete Enchanter (1941) (with Fletcher Pratt)
aka The Incompleat Enchanter
2. The Castle of Iron (1941) (with Fletcher Pratt)
3. Wall of Serpents (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt)
aka The Enchanter Compleated
The Compleat Enchanter (1976) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Intrepid Enchanter (1988) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1991)
The Enchanter Reborn (1992) (with Christopher Stasheff)
The Exotic Enchanter (1995) (with Christopher Stasheff)
1. The Incomplete Enchanter (1941) (with Fletcher Pratt)
aka The Incompleat Enchanter
2. The Castle of Iron (1941) (with Fletcher Pratt)
3. Wall of Serpents (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt)
aka The Enchanter Compleated
The Compleat Enchanter (1976) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Intrepid Enchanter (1988) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Sir Harold and the Gnome King (1991)
The Enchanter Reborn (1992) (with Christopher Stasheff)
The Exotic Enchanter (1995) (with Christopher Stasheff)
Krishna
1. The Queen of Zamba (1977)
2. The Hand of Zei (1963)
3. The Hostage of Zir (1977)
4. The Tower of Zanid (1958)
5. The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982)
6. The Bones of Zora (1983) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Virgin of Zesh (2011)
1. The Queen of Zamba (1977)
2. The Hand of Zei (1963)
3. The Hostage of Zir (1977)
4. The Tower of Zanid (1958)
5. The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982)
6. The Bones of Zora (1983) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Virgin of Zesh (2011)
Jorian
1. The Goblin Tower (1968)
2. The Clocks of Iraz (1971)
3. The Unbeheaded King (1983)
4. The Honorable Barbarian (1989)
The Reluctant King (omnibus) (1985)
1. The Goblin Tower (1968)
2. The Clocks of Iraz (1971)
3. The Unbeheaded King (1983)
4. The Honorable Barbarian (1989)
The Reluctant King (omnibus) (1985)
Incorporated Knight (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Incorporated Knight (1987)
The Pixilated Peeress (1991)
The Incorporated Knight (1987)
The Pixilated Peeress (1991)
Novels
Lest Darkness Fall (1941)
Land of Unreason (1942) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Divide and Rule (1948)
The Stolen Dormouse (1948)
The Carnelian Cube (1948) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Genus Homo (1950) (with P Schuyler Miller)
Rogue Queen (1951)
The Undesired Princess (1951)
Cosmic Manhunt (1954)
aka A Planet Called Krishna / The Queen of Zamba
Solomon's Stone (1957)
An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)
The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)
The Glory That Was (1960)
The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961)
The Search for Zei (1962)
aka The Floating Continent
The Arrows of Hercules (1965)
The Day of the Dinosaur (1968) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Golden Wind (1969)
Citadels of Mystery (1972) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Fallible Fiend (1973)
The Virgin and the Wheels (1976)
The Great Fetish (1978)
The Spell of Conan (1982)
Conan the Barbarian (1982) (with Lin Carter)
The Blade of Conan (1982)
The Stones of Nomuru (1988) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny (1990) (with David Drake)
The Swords of Zinjaban (1991) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Venom Trees of Sunga (1992)
None But Lucifer (2002) (with H L Gold)
Land of Unreason (1942) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Divide and Rule (1948)
The Stolen Dormouse (1948)
The Carnelian Cube (1948) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Genus Homo (1950) (with P Schuyler Miller)
Rogue Queen (1951)
The Undesired Princess (1951)
Cosmic Manhunt (1954)
aka A Planet Called Krishna / The Queen of Zamba
Solomon's Stone (1957)
An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)
The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)
The Glory That Was (1960)
The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961)
The Search for Zei (1962)
aka The Floating Continent
The Arrows of Hercules (1965)
The Day of the Dinosaur (1968) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Golden Wind (1969)
Citadels of Mystery (1972) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Fallible Fiend (1973)
The Virgin and the Wheels (1976)
The Great Fetish (1978)
The Spell of Conan (1982)
Conan the Barbarian (1982) (with Lin Carter)
The Blade of Conan (1982)
The Stones of Nomuru (1988) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny (1990) (with David Drake)
The Swords of Zinjaban (1991) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Venom Trees of Sunga (1992)
None But Lucifer (2002) (with H L Gold)
Omnibus
Divide and Rule / The Sword of Rhiannon (1990) (with Leigh Brackett)
Pugnacious Peacemaker / The Wheels of If (1990) (with Harry Turtledove)
L. Sprague de Camp SF Gateway Omnibus (2013)
Pugnacious Peacemaker / The Wheels of If (1990) (with Harry Turtledove)
L. Sprague de Camp SF Gateway Omnibus (2013)
Collections
The Wheels of If (1948)
The Undesired Princess and Mr Arson (1951)
The Tritonian Ring: And Other Pusadian Tales (1951)
The Continent Makers: And Other Tales of the Viagens (1953)
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology (1953)
Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Heroes and Hobgoblins (1962)
Gun for Dinosaur: And Other Imaginative Tales (1963)
The Best of L Sprague de Camp (1969)
Demons and Dinosaurs (1970)
The Reluctant Shaman: And Other Fantastic Tales (1970)
Phantoms and Fancies (poems) (1972)
Scribblings (1972)
The Incompleat Enchanter (1979) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Purple Pterodactyls (1979) (with Jim Baen)
Footprints on Sand (1981) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Virgin of Zesh and the Tower of Zanid (1982)
Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages (1986)
Rivers of Time (1993)
Down in the Bottomlands: And Other Places (1999) (with Harry Turtledove)
Aristotle and the Gun: and Other Stories (2002)
Years In The Making (2005)
The Mathematics of Magic (2007) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories (2011) (with David Drake, Frederik Pohl and S M Stirling)
The Undesired Princess and Mr Arson (1951)
The Tritonian Ring: And Other Pusadian Tales (1951)
The Continent Makers: And Other Tales of the Viagens (1953)
Sprague de Camp's New Anthology (1953)
Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Heroes and Hobgoblins (1962)
Gun for Dinosaur: And Other Imaginative Tales (1963)
The Best of L Sprague de Camp (1969)
Demons and Dinosaurs (1970)
The Reluctant Shaman: And Other Fantastic Tales (1970)
Phantoms and Fancies (poems) (1972)
Scribblings (1972)
The Incompleat Enchanter (1979) (with Fletcher Pratt)
The Purple Pterodactyls (1979) (with Jim Baen)
Footprints on Sand (1981) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
The Virgin of Zesh and the Tower of Zanid (1982)
Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages (1986)
Rivers of Time (1993)
Down in the Bottomlands: And Other Places (1999) (with Harry Turtledove)
Aristotle and the Gun: and Other Stories (2002)
Years In The Making (2005)
The Mathematics of Magic (2007) (with Fletcher Pratt)
Lest Darkness Fall & Related Stories (2011) (with David Drake, Frederik Pohl and S M Stirling)
Series contributed to
Conan
2. Conan of Cimmeria (1972) (with Lin Carter and Robert E Howard)
Tales of Conan (1955) (with Robert E Howard)
The Return of Conan (1957)
aka Conan the Avenger
Conan the Adventurer (1965) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan the Usurper (1967) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan the Warrior (1967) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan the Freebooter (1968) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan of the Isles (1968) (with Lin Carter)
Conan the Buccaneer (1971) (with Lin Carter)
Conan of Aquilonia (1977)
Conan the Swordsman (1978) (with Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg)
Conan the Liberator (1979) (with Lin Carter)
The Treasure of Tranicos (1980) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan and the Spider God (1980)
Sagas of Conan (omnibus) (2004) (with Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg)
2. Conan of Cimmeria (1972) (with Lin Carter and Robert E Howard)
Tales of Conan (1955) (with Robert E Howard)
The Return of Conan (1957)
aka Conan the Avenger
Conan the Adventurer (1965) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan the Usurper (1967) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan the Warrior (1967) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan the Freebooter (1968) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan of the Isles (1968) (with Lin Carter)
Conan the Buccaneer (1971) (with Lin Carter)
Conan of Aquilonia (1977)
Conan the Swordsman (1978) (with Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg)
Conan the Liberator (1979) (with Lin Carter)
The Treasure of Tranicos (1980) (with Robert E Howard)
Conan and the Spider God (1980)
Sagas of Conan (omnibus) (2004) (with Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg)
Anthologies edited
Swords and Sorcery (1963)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
The Fantastic Swordsmen (1967)
Warlocks and Warriors (1971)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
Tales Beyond Time: From Fantasy to Science Fiction (1973) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers (1976)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
The Fantastic Swordsmen (1967)
Warlocks and Warriors (1971)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
Tales Beyond Time: From Fantasy to Science Fiction (1973) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers (1976)
Non fiction
Inventions Patents and Their Management (1959)
Heroes of American Invention (1961)
The Great Monkey Trial (1968)
Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature (1970)
Darwin and His Great Discovery (1972)
Great Cities of the Ancient World (1972)
Al Azif: The Necronomicon (1973) (with Abdul Alhazred)
The Ancient Engineers (1974)
Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard (1975)
Lovecraft: A Biography (1975)
Science fiction handbook (1975)
H. P. Lovecraft: A biography (1976) (see H P Lovecraft)
The Ragged Edge of Science (1976)
The Fringe of the Unknown (1983)
Lands Beyond: A Fascinating Expedition Into Unknown Lands (1993)
The Ape-man Within (1995)
Time and Chance: An Autobiography (1996)
Rubber Dinosaurs And Wooden Elephants (1996)
Heroes of American Invention (1961)
The Great Monkey Trial (1968)
Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature (1970)
Darwin and His Great Discovery (1972)
Great Cities of the Ancient World (1972)
Al Azif: The Necronomicon (1973) (with Abdul Alhazred)
The Ancient Engineers (1974)
Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard (1975)
Lovecraft: A Biography (1975)
Science fiction handbook (1975)
H. P. Lovecraft: A biography (1976) (see H P Lovecraft)
The Ragged Edge of Science (1976)
The Fringe of the Unknown (1983)
Lands Beyond: A Fascinating Expedition Into Unknown Lands (1993)
The Ape-man Within (1995)
Time and Chance: An Autobiography (1996)
Rubber Dinosaurs And Wooden Elephants (1996)
Anthologies containing stories by L Sprague de Camp
Science Fiction Stories 5 (1956)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956)
The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960)
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963)
The Unknown (1963)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
The Weird Ones (1965)
Time Untamed (1967)
The Freak Show (1970)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)
Astounding (1973)
aka The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 2 (1976)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1976)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3 (1977)
The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
The Great SF Stories Two: 1940 (1979)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 5 (1980)
Unicorns! (1982)
Magic for Sale (1983)
Top Science Fiction (1985)
Dragons! (1993)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Dinosaurs II (1995)
Dinosaurs (1996)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
Dragons: The Greatest Stories (1997)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The SFWA Grand Masters (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956)
The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960)
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963)
The Unknown (1963)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
The Weird Ones (1965)
Time Untamed (1967)
The Freak Show (1970)
3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972)
Astounding (1973)
aka The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 2 (1976)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1976)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 3 (1977)
The Great SF Stories One: 1939 (1979)
The Great SF Stories Two: 1940 (1979)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 5 (1980)
Unicorns! (1982)
Magic for Sale (1983)
Top Science Fiction (1985)
Dragons! (1993)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Dinosaurs II (1995)
Dinosaurs (1996)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
Dragons: The Greatest Stories (1997)
The Flying Sorcerers (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
The SFWA Grand Masters (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
Short stories
| Lament By a Maker | |||
| Ultrasonic God | |||
| Hyperpilosity (1938) | |||
| The Merman (1938) | |||
| The Blue Giraffe (1939) | |||
| The Gnarly Man (1939) | |||
| Nothing In the Rules (1939) | |||
| The Exhalted (1940) | |||
| The Hardwood Pile (1940) | |||
| Juice (1940) | |||
| The Warrior Race (1940) | |||
| The Wheels of If [short story] (1940) | |||
| The Best-Laid Scheme (1941) | |||
| Mr Arson (1941) | |||
| The Contraband Cow (1942) | |||
| The Wisdom of the East (1942) | |||
| The Ghosts of Melvin Pye (1946) | |||
| The Reluctant Shaman [short story] (1947) | |||
| The Animal-Cracker Plot (1949) | |||
| The Colorful Character (1949) | |||
| Finished (1949) | |||
| Throwback (1949) | |||
| The Better Mousetrap (1950) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Elephas Frumenti (1950) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Gift of God (1950) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Git Along! (1950) | |||
| The Inspector's Teeth (1950) | |||
| Perpetual Motion (1950) | |||
| Summer Wear (1950) | |||
| Beasts of Bourbon (1951) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Calories (1951) | |||
| The Continent Makers [short story] (1951) | |||
| The Eye of Tandyla (1951) | |||
| The Galton Whistle (1951) | |||
| More Than Skin Deep (1951) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Owl and the Ape (1951) | |||
| The Tritonian Ring [short story] (1951) | |||
| When the Night Wind Howls (1951) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Ancestral Amethyst (1952) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Guided Man (1952) | |||
| In-Group (1952) | |||
| Proposal (1952) | |||
| The Saxon Pretender (1952) | |||
| The Space Clause (1952) | |||
| Where to, Please? (1952) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| All That Glitters (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Black Ball (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Caveat Emptor (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Corpus Delectable (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| A Dime Brings You Success (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Eve of St. John (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Gin Comes in Bottles (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Green Thumb (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| Here, Putzi! (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Hungry Hercynian (1953) | |||
| The Love Nest (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| My Brother's Keeper (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| No Forwarding Address (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Palimpsest of St. Augustine (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Rape of the Lock (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Stone of the Sages (1953) (with Fletcher Pratt) | |||
| The Stronger Spell (1953) | |||
| Cornzan the Mighty (1955) | |||
| Gratitude (1955) | |||
| Judgment Day (1955) | |||
| The Egg (1956) | |||
| A Gun for Dinosaur (1956) | |||
| Impractical Joke (1956) | |||
| Internal Combustion (1956) | |||
| New Arcadia (1956) | |||
| A Thing of Custom (1956) | |||
| Let's Have Fun (1957) | |||
| Aristotle and the Gun [short story] (1958) | |||
| Ka the Appalling (1958) | |||
| The Tower of Zanid (part 3) (1958) | |||
| Faunas (1968) | |||
| The Emperor's Fan (1973) | |||
| The Lamp from Atlantis (1975) | |||
| Two Yards of Dragon (1976) | |||
| Eudoric's Unicorn (1977) | |||
| The Gem in the Tower (1978) (with Lin Carter) | |||
| The Big Splash (1992) | |||
| Crocamander Quest (1992) | |||
| The Satanic Illusion (1992) | |||
| The Synthetic Barbarian (1992) | |||
| The Cayuse (1993) | |||
| The Honeymoon Dragon (1993) | |||
| Miocene Romance (1993) | |||
| The Mislaid Mastodon (1993) |
Awards
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Links to other websites
| The Official L. Sprague de Camp Website |
L Sprague de Camp recommends
 Time and the Gods (1906) Lord Dunsany "Perhaps the strongest single influence in the development of fantasy fiction in the present century." |  The Double Shadow: And Other Fantasies (1933) Clark Ashton Smith "A monstrously vivid imagination, a keenly ironic sense of humour, and an uninhibited bent for the macabre.a giant in the weird-heroic field." |  The Sunken World (1948) Stanton A Coblentz "One of the best Atlantis novels." | |
 Conan the Triumphant (1983) Robert Jordan "Nobody alive writes Conan better than Robert Jordan." |  Bronwyn's Bane (1983) Elizabeth Ann Scarborough "I found BRONWYN'S BANE delightful reading. I wish I had her fertility of imagination in thinking up amusing twists, turns and business of plot." |  Conan the Renegade (1986) (Adventures of Conan) Leonard Carpenter "A rousing good Conan story filled with magic and adventure." | |
 Down to the Sea (2000) (Lost Regiment, book 9) William R Forstchen "A parallel world of majestic sweep and gripping intensity." |
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