Book description
King Jorian was rather attached to his head. Hence, he felt his promise
to seal the Kist of Avlen, a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts on
magic, was little enough a price to pay for a chance to escape his own
beheading. But when the quest pitted him against one peril after another
- a murderous wizard and his giant squirrel, a castle full of
executioners, a marauding troop of ape men, and a voluptuous
500-year-old princess who was also a serpent - Jorian wondered if he'd
made a good bargain! 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.
