Book description
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 humanoids from
all over the galaxy. The Wheels of If in which a young lawyer is trapped
in a sense-shattering shuttle among alternative worlds of possibility,
and lands at last in an America that has been colonised by Norsemen and
divided between two great warring empires - one white, one Indian.
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.
