From archive (archive) Subject: Author Lists: L. Sprague de Camp From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM Date: 25 Nov 88 18:16:14 GMT Here's the book list for L. Sprague de Camp. In addition to the stuff I've mentioned here, he's also written some niffty non-fiction books as well. [C] == Short Story Collection. [O] == Omnibus (a book that completely contains other books). aka == Also known by this other title. /John --------------------------------------------------------------------- de Camp, L[yon] Sprague [,M.S.] [U.S.A., 27/11/1907- ] The Novaria Books: The Reluctant King Trilogy [1984] [O] The Goblin Tower [1968] The Clocks of Iraz [1971] The Unbeheaded King [1983] The Fallible Fiend [1973] The Viagens Interplanetarias Stories: The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens [1953] [C] The Krishna Series: [space opera] Cosmic Manhunt [1954] [aka "The Queen of Zamba" and "A Planet Called Krishna"] The Tower of Zanid [1958] [semi-sequel to "Cosmic Manhunt"] The Search for Zei [1962] [aka "The Floating Continent"] The Hand of Zei [1963] [..Search.. and ..Hand.. are two parts of one story] The Hostage of Zir [1977] The Prisoner of Zhamanak [1982] The Bones of Zora [1983] [with Catherine Adelaide Crook de Camp] Rogue Queen [1951] The Virgin and the Wheels [1976] [2 novels] [2nd novel not in series] Lest Darkness Fall [1941] Divide and Rule [1948] The Wheels of If [1949] [C] The Undesired Princess [1951] The Tritonian Ring [1953] Solomon's Stone [1957] An Elephant for Aristotle [1958] The Glory That Was [1960] The Bronze God of Rhodes [1960] The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate [1961] A Gun For Dinosaur [1963] [C] The Arrows of Hercules [1965] The Golden Wind [1969] The Reluctant Shaman [1970] [C] Scribblings [1972] [C] The Best of L. Sprague de Camp [1978] [C] The Great Fetish [1978] Purple Pterodactyls [1979] [C] Conan and the Spider God [1980] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Carter, Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Conan of the Isles [1968] Conan the Buccaneer [1971] Conan of Aquilonia [1977] Conan the Liberator [1979] Conan the Barbarian [1982] [movie novelization] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Carter, Lin[wood] [Vrooman] & Howard, Robert E. Conan [1967] Conan the Wanderer [1968] Conan of Cimmeria [1969] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Carter, Lin[wood] [Vrooman] & Nyberg, Bjorn Conan the Swordsman [1978] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & de Camp, Catherine [Adelaide] Crook The Science Fiction Handbook, Revised [1977] [NonFiction] [how to write sf] The Bones of Zora [1983] [in the Krishna Series by Lyon Sprague de Camp] The Incorporated Knight [1987] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Howard, Robert E. Tales of Conan [1955] Conan the Adventurer [1966] Conan the Warrior [1967] Conan the Usurper [1967] Conan the Conqueror [1967] Conan the Freebooter [1968] Conan: The Treasure of Tranicos [1980] Conan: The Flame Knife [1981] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Miller, P[eter] Schuyler Genus Homo [1950] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Nyberg, Bjorn The Return of Conan [1968] [aka "Conan the Avenger"] de Camp, L[yon] Sprague & Pratt, [Murray] Fletcher The Intrepid Enchanter [1988] [O] [the Harold Shea Stories] The Compleat Enchanter [1975] [O] The Incomplete Enchanter [1941] The Castle of Iron [1950] Wall of Serpents [1960] [aka "The Enchanter Compleated"] Land of Unreason [1942] The Carnelian Cube [1948] Tales from Gavagan's Bar [1953] [C] --------------------------------------------------------------------- From rec.arts.sf.written Tue Dec 14 17:09:49 1993 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: liuida!sunic!uunet!tcsi.tcs.com!agate!apple.com!amd!netcomsv!netcom.com!garyg From: garyg@netcom.com (Gary Greene) Subject: Re: L. Sprague de Camp Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <9312132158.AA05188@exu.inf.puc-rio.br> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 11:35:07 GMT Lines: 100 denise@inf.puc-rio.br (Denise Aboim Sande e Oliveira) writes: >Does anyone know anything about the books from L. Sprague de Camp? >I've read a book from him a long time ago, (or was it a novel ?), >and I liked it, then. I'd like to know whether there are any new books from >him. Dorothy Heydt has already mentioned my favorite by de Camp, _Lest Darkness Fall_, and I second her opinion that its his best work (I have a hardbound copy :) but he is also reasonably well known for his fantasy writing, some of which uses characters from our continuum and involves universe jumping. His best in this area IMHO are the Harold Shea stories written with Fletcher Pratt. These are indeed classics. If you like this sort of thing too I can happily recommend them. They are currently available in a single volume as the _Compleat Compleat Enchanter_. Originally these were published as _The Roaring Trumpet_, _The Mathematics of Magic_, _The Castle of Iron_, _The Wall of Serpents_, and _The Green Magician_. The first two were published as the _Incompleat Enchanter_ and later volumes added _The Castle of Iron_ (_The Compleat Enchanter_), _The Wall of Serpents_ (_The Enchanter Completed_), and the final volume I mention above, which included the last story in the series done with Pratt. There is also a set of short stories ...the others are novelettes... written with Christoper Stasheff as co-editer, with several other writers, set in the Harold Shea cycle. These are not done as well as the originals though the two by de Camp were interesting to someone hooked on the series like me. de Camp and Pratt were a distinctive writing team. Till recently de Camp said he was not interested in doing other stories in the cycle because he felt he couldn't recapture what they produced together. I agree ... these later stories in the cycle lack something. _Trumpet_ was set in the world of Scandinavian myth and introduced Shea and his colleagues at the Garaden Psychiatric Institute in Ohio. Dr. Reed Chalmers, the senior shrink, is working on a theory that "dements" are people who have made an incomplete transition to other quantum worlds and are stuck somewhat in both. Harold Shea, junior psychologist to Chalmers, is a romantic sort and decides to put the theory into practice on his own. Shea escapes humdrum existance into a world occupied by real Norse Gods with comic results in _Trumpet_. Chalmers joins Shea later in _Mathematics_ after Harold makes a fortunate return to his own continuum just as the Gotterdamerung is getting into full swing. Together they journey into the world of Spencer's _The Fairie Queene_ and explore the physics of magic with later excursions into the Orlando Furioso (_Castle of Iron_), the Finnish Kalevala (_Serpents_), and Irish folklore (_The Green Magician_). These stories established many of the themes found in contemporary fantasy ...at least the parts not inspired by Tolkein and T. H. White. Fletcher Pratt died in the 50s unfortunately, but there are several other novels he wrote with de Camp that have some flavor of the Harold Shea cycle, notably _The Land of Unreason_ and _The Carnelian Cube_. They also produced a well regarded series, _Tales From Gavagan's Bar_, that inspired Spider Robinson. The list of his works I give below is based on an old source. It lacks all his more recent work with his wife. Before I copy it, the flyleaf of my copy of _The Compleat Compleat Enchanter_ lists the following by de Camp: The Hand of Zei The Glory That Was The Fallible Fiend ...I enjoyed this some. With Catherine Crook de Camp: The stones of Nomaru The Incorporated Knight The Swords of Zinjaban With David Drake: The Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny I will *not* list everything the man has written (way too long and much is out of print or of questionable value to you). The 1979 edition of _The Science Fiction Encyclopedia_ lists the following: Lest Darkness Fall (1941) ...mentioned by Dorothy and I The Wheels of If (1949) ...another classic The Virgin of Zesh (1953) Rogue Queen (1951) ...listed along with LDF as his most well regarded SF work --I've never read it. The Hostage of Zir (1971) Bell, Book, and Candle (1959) ...became the movie with Jimmie Stewart and Kim Novak (?). Most of these should still be in print. A work I enjoyed, not listed above, was historical fiction (another of his fields), _Dragon of the Ishtar Gate_. From memory he and Catherine wrote a book called _The Unbeheaded King_ a few years back and more recently, _The Pixielated Princess_. Along with Lin Carter he is/was one of the editors of Robert Howard's Conan series (not my cup of tea) and also one of the scholarly commentators on H. P. Lovecraft. Mostly, he likes to write within the adventure and fantasy genres. Have fun. Cheers, Gary Greene Santa Clara, California garyg@netcom.com --