Book description
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 from
bloodthirsty pirates and to do that, somebody had to lead the fleet
against an impregnable fortress, while fending off a superior navy. And
whoever managed all that was going to be a hero - whether he knew it or
not! Lyon Sprague de Camp was born in 1907 and died in 2000. During a
writing career that spanned seven decades, he wrote over a hundred books
in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction,
non-fiction and biography. Although arguably best known for his
continuation of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, de Camp was an
important figure in the formative period of modern SF, alongside the
likes of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, and was a winner of the
Hugo, World Fantasy Life Achievement and SFWA Grand Master awards.
