Book description
The gods of Poseidonis - or Atlantis - were powerful and real. Now they
were determined to destroy the kingdom ruled by the father of Prince
Vakar, the one man whose mind they could not read. The only way to save
the kingdom was to discover that thing which the gods feared most.
To find it, Prince Vakar set out across the largely unknown world where
dangers multiplied with every league. There he found savage countries
and strange people - the wild Amazons; a voluptuous, ensorcelled queen;
a too-charming girl who was half-horse, half-woman; dangerous magicians
who ruled hordes of headless slaves- and the Gorgons, who could paralyze
their victims at a glance.
Behind was his ambitious brother, determined that Vakar must fail. Even
closer were unknown enemies set on his trail by the suspicious gods.
And to add to his troubles, Vakar had no idea of what he sought!
L. Sprague de Camp (1907 - 2000)
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.
