Book description
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 brother has been
burnt as punishment for heresy. And unless you intended to do something
about it . . . 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.
