Penulis: L. Sprague deCamp

Meet Victor Hasselborg, easily the most miserable Private Investigator in the entire galaxy. More comfortable with the dull routine of investigating insurance frauds than interstellar adventure, Hass …

Dirk Barnevelt knew he wasn’t a hero, but somebody had to find the explorer who’d vanished on the low-tech planet, Krisha and to do that, somebody had to single-handedly rescue a beautiful princess f …

Outside the walls of the starport Novorecife, Earthmen on the warrior planet Kishna are on their own. So when he is chosen to lead the first ersuma (Earth-tourists) through the sorcerer-kingdoms of t …

Percy Mjipa, diplomat-adventurer, and Alicia Dyckman, interplanetary runaway, both aliens on the alien world of Krishna, are swept up in wildly treacherous – and wildly funny – imperial intrigue. . . …

Welcome back to the planet Krishna – a wilderness of blue woods under three moons, where square-riggers sail the treacherous inland seas, where fierce humanoid natives with feathery antennae cross sw …

When Fergus Reith agrees to act as tour guide for the famed palaeontologist Dr Aristide Marot, little does he realise that the search for the elusive Ozymandias will uncover spectacular riches, ruthl …

Welcome back to the planet Krishna – a wilderness of blue woods under three moons, where square-riggers sail the treacherous inland seas, where fierce humanoid natives with feathery antennae cross sw …

The Producer thinks he’s God’s gift to women – whether they’re human or alien.The Director is delighted to work on a wild and woolly planet, where he can really behave like Attila the Hun. Some of th …

Decades before a certain five-year voyage, L. Sprague de Camp sent a spirited crew to a strange and distant world, where their meeting with its inhabitants created chaos in local politics, upset the …

Wrestling Reptiloids is no job for milquetoasts.Mild-mannered Terran archaeologist Keith Salazar was just minding his own business, digging up the alien past on an out-of-the-way site on the planet K …

Tortured Intellectual Kirk Salazar, devout intellectual, had quite been looking forward to his field research on Sunga. He aimed to discover how the stump-tailed, semiarboreal kusis lived without bei …

Against the Fall of Night The Roman Empire had spread order, knowledge, and civilisation throughout the ancient world. When Rome fell, the light of reason flickered out across the Empire. The Dark Ag …

On a future Earth, where invading aliens have forced humanity to revert to a feudal society and conducting scientific research is punishable by death, it’s good to be the heir to a duchy. Unless your …

Twenty-five men and women against a world of evolution gone mad!Here is the vivid story of their adventures and terrors – the monster in the forest – the city of giant beavers – and the secret of the …

The Glory that was – or the Glory that wasn’t?Knut Bulnes had considered Vasil IX, World Emperor of the 27th century, to be a harmless eccentric until Imperial decree completely sealed off Greece beh …

The Virgin of Zesh In which a beautiful woman, a mind-drunk poet, and a super-sober scientist must fight for their lives on a planet occupied by weird cultists from the Earth and bizarre varieties of …

On the 15th day of Franklin, Year of Descent 1008, in the Kralate of Vizantia Planet Kforri.A young teacher, Marko Prokopiu, is convicted and jailed. His heinous crime: preaching the false and unholy …

The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages – at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to a …

The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages – at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to a …

The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages – at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to a …

The Perfect Servant (NOT!)He looked like a cross between a dragon and a catfish, and he could bend iron bands into pretzels with a flick of his hand. But what Zdim the mild-mannered demon really was, …

King Jorian was rather attached to his head. Hence, he felt his promise to seal the Kist of Avlen, a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts on magic, was little enough a price to pay for a chance to e …

The Best Mislaid Plans Wizardly schemes, Jorian knew went oft a-gley. But this time the wizard’s plan seemed simple. Since ancient prophecy foretold that the clocks would save Iraz, Jorian must repai …

Never Trust a Demon Three years earlier, Jorian had been the crowned King of Xylar. But the laws of Xylar decreed that each randomly chosen King must be beheaded at the end of a five-year reign. Jori …

The Whims of Destiny Jorian, the one-time unbeheaded king, was now safely retired from a long career of getting into trouble. But his younger brother Kerin lacked such wisdom. The outraged father of …

The Weirdest Drinking Establishment in the Universe Gavagan’s Bar – presided over by Mr. Aloysius P. Cohan, bartender. Where you will meet such not-so-regular customers as:Councilman Maguire, who bro …

The gods of Poseidonis – or Atlantis – were powerful and real. Now they were determined to destroy the kingdom ruled by the father of Prince Vakar, the one man whose mind they could not read. The onl …

It’s never easy being a knight, especially for a practical Eudoric Dambertson, whose mind and temperature are better suited to trade than to the highly impractical demands of chivalry. Take the simpl …

Acting sergeant Thorolf Zigramson of the Fourth Commonwealth Foot, an aspiring scholar but a soldier by default, somewhat reluctantly rescues Yvette, the beautiful countess of Grintz, from the soldie …

Being the adventures of W. Wilson Newbury, mild-mannered – and mildly ensorcelled – gentleman banker.L. Sprague de Camp, winner of the Gandolf Award as a Grand Master of Fantasy, reveals within these …

On Midsummer’s Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately – or fortunately – Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn’t take …

Arthur Cleveland Finch was an eminently practical man. Naturally he didn’t believe that the carnelian cube was a "dream-stone" with supernatural powers. But, of course, if he were going to …

The Undesired Princess Rollin Hobart thought he was a logical, sensible man – until he was transported to a world that was perfectly logical but not sensible in the least.The Enchanted Bunny Joe John …

After an unintentionally successful demon-summoning, accountant Prosper Nash finds himself on the astral plane, inhabiting the body of Jean-Prospere, Chevalier de N che-the swashbuckling cavalier he …

SUSPEND YOUR DISBELIEFAnd plunge headlong into the always wild, constantly weird, and frequently whimsical realm of fantasy as invoked by that master magician L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP!- A social protestor …

BEYOND 2001!By the twenty-first century, the great power struggle on Earth had been resolved in the only possible way. The United States, Russia, and China all have fallen by the wayside, and Brazil …

Copy from the 1975 Owlswick Press print edition:L. Sprague de Camp’s original Science-Fiction Handbook, published in 1953 and long out of print, has been favourably remembered by a whole generation o …

This is the definitive biography of Robert E. Howard, a giant of the pulp era, who created the archetypal brooding fantasy figure. To the general public, he is virtually unknown, but millions are fam …

Stories contained in this book:The Swords of Faerie Jack of all Arts: William Morris Two Men in One: Lord Dunsany Eldritch Yankee Gentleman: H. P. Lovecraft Superman in a Bowler: E. R. Eddison The Mi …

LOVECRAFT THE MANLOVECRAFT THE WRITERLOVECRAFT THE CULT FIGUREHis name conjures macabre visions of ghoulish beasts, creeping monsters, ghastly fantasies.His stories have spawned a following that rank …

Time and Chance is the autobiography of Hugo, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Award-winning author, L. Sprague de Camp. It is a fascinating insight into a man who began writing in the late 1930’s …

In the real world, the Mediterranean basin dried up several times, only to refill again. If it hadn’t, what’s really sea bottom would have become the most savage desert in the world. Mild-mannered Ra …

From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the varied work of author, editor and critic, L. Sprague …