Book description
Never Trust a Demon Three years earlier, Jorian had been the crowned
King of Xylar. But the laws of Xylar decreed that each randomly chosen
King must be beheaded at the end of a five-year reign. Jorian had a
prejudice against losing his head. With the aid of the aged wizard
Karadur, he managed to flee. Unfortunately he had not been able to bring
his beloved wife, Queen Estrildis, with him, nor had he yet been able to
find a means of freeing her from the palace in Xylar City. Now, however,
he felt that his luck was about to change. He and the aged wizard
Karadur were being flown through the night air in a great copper
bathtub, powered by a demon under Karadur's control. Ahead of them lay
Xylar City. There, while the demon kept the bathtub hovering above the
palace, Jorian could let down a rope and rescue Estrildis. It should
have been a foolproof scheme 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.
