Book description
The Perfect Servant (NOT!) He looked like a cross between a dragon and
a catfish, and he could bend iron bands into pretzels with a flick of
his hand. But what Zdim the mild-mannered demon really was, was a
scholar of logic and philosophy. That's why when Zdim was drafter for a
year's servitude on the mortal plane he felt that a monumental
administrative error had been made. And even though Zdim resolved to be
absolutely obedient and to do exactly what he was told, the wizard who
employed him soon agreed. 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.
