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  • The Tritonian Ring
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    “…pure swashbuckling fun with a touch of bawdiness.”—P. Schuyler Miller, reviewer for Astounding Science Fiction and Analog.“A remarkable job.”— Galaxy Science Fiction magazineCelebrated author L. Sprague de Camp recaptures our imaginations with this accounting of the relationship between of God and Man in a tale that critic Groff Conklin says is “…in the Conan tradition in eve...
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    18,76 €

  • The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    'Triumphant collection from SF’s best-educated humanist.'-The Washington PostA science fiction collection by one of the all-time greats of science fiction, L. Sprague de Camp. These stories and poems exemplify de Camp’s unique outlook on life and mankind and are told with a quiet but sharp irony that became his trademark. Bold, inventive and humorous, this collection is a must...
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    18,23 €

  • The Glory That Was
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    A true tour de force for de Camp, The Glory That Was brings together many of the themes the author excelled in writing about, including time travel and alternate history. Earth in the twenty-seventh century is ruled by a constitutional monarchy, though both the World Emperor and his Prime Minister have plans to assume greater power by neutralizing the other. In the power strugg...
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    12,41 €

  • The Golden Wind
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    'A tale of high adventure, rich in historical lore and erudite in the telling. Of Mr. de Camp’s ... novels, this may well be the most ambitious and quite possibly the best.'-Publishers Weekly *** The Golden Wind is the last of the five classic historicals de Camp wrote (both historically and chronologically). *** The novel tells of the early adventures of Eudoxus of Cyzicus and...
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    16,00 €

  • Anthropomorphic Aliens
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp / Robert Sheckley
    An Interstellar AnthologyAnthropomorphic animals have been imagined for as long as stories have been told. This is especially true of science fiction, where the endless possibilities of alien worlds make fertile ground for creativity.Contained in these pages are stories from across the spectrum of science fiction, ranging from 1950 to 2013, and featuring feathers, fur, and scal...
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    21,61 €

  • The Arrows of Hercules
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the 4th century BC, Th e Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult. *** He is quickly drafted by Dionysios into Syracuse’s war efforts against Carthage, which sets him on a series of adventures including a battle against Etruscan pirates and a kid...
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    18,40 €

  • The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    Bessas of Zariaspa is a young officer in the Immortals regiment, sworn to protect and obey his King at all costs. The King wishes immortality and to that end tasks Bessas to find items that make an immortality potion, including the blood of a dragon and the ear of a king. *** The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate is a swashbuckling historical novel with larger-than-life characters, set...
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    18,06 €

  • The Bronze God of Rhodes
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as the memoirs of Chares of Lindos. **** Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. A pupil of Lysippos, Chares eventually built the Colossus of Rhodes, now considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. **** These memoirs present the trials and tribulations (some of them hilarious) of the sculptor as...
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    17,97 €

  • An Elephant for Aristotle
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    What finer way for Alexander the Great to honor his old tutor Aristotle than to send him an actual Indian elephant? *** After capturing a magnificent specimen from an Indian ruler, Alexander tasks Leon of Atrax, a cavalry commander, to deliver the animal to Aristotle in Athens. *** Leon leads a motley crew of companions (and the elephant) from India to Greece, encountering all ...
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    18,10 €

  • Rogue Queen
    L. Sprague de Camp / LSprague de Camp
    Rogue Queen is a ground-breaking novel by L. Sprague de Camp that was one of the first science fiction books to deal with sexual themes, paving the way for more daring works by future authors. ***Part of the Viagens Interplanetarias series, the story takes place on a planet circling the star Lalande 21185, also known as Ormazd. When humans arrive on the planet they find a hive-...
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    12,36 €

  • The Ancient Engineers
    L. Sprague De Camp / LSprague de Camp
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    21,05 €