Book description
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 behind a
force wall and people of Greek descent suddenly began disappearing from
the rest of the world - including the wife of Bulnes's friend Wiyem
Flin. Bulnes reluctantly agreed to help Flin find his wife, and the two
managed to get inside the force wall only to find themselves in the
Classical Greece of Socrates and Euripides - and the target of a
man-hunt not only by the soldiers of Perikles, but also by the
unpleasant characters with machine guns 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.
