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Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers

L. Sprague deCamp

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Stories contained in this book:

The swords of Faerie

Jack of all Arts: William Morris

Two men in one: Lord Dunsany

Eldritch Yankee Gentleman: H. P. Lovecraft

Superman in a Bowler: E. R. Eddison

The Miscast Barbarian: Robert E. Howard

Parallel Worlds: Fletcher Pratt

Sierran Shaman: Clark Ashton Smith

Merlin in Tweeds: J. R. R. Tolkien

The Architect of Camelot: T. H. White

Conan's Compeers

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L. Sprague deCamp

L. Sprague deCamp

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.

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