Book description
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 Kukulcan, when
suddenly he was besieged by intruders on his scholarly peace: hostile
natives, an indifferent ex-wife, and a demon developer with rapacious
eyes glued on both his site and his true love. In the course of
protecting his dig, regaining his loved one and vanquishing his rival,
Salazar will fight a giant reptilian predator bare-handed, leap into
snake-filled pits, engineer the planet's first imperial conquest, lead
and train a battalion of alien riflemen and hold a seance. Pretty
exciting work - but then maybe Keith Salazar wasn't such a milquetoast
after all. 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.
