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Lyon Sprague de Camp (November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors. He "was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the late 1940s."
De Camp was born in New York City, one of three sons of Lyon de Camp and Emma Beatrice Sprague. His maternal grandfather was the accountant, banker, pioneering Volapükist and Civil War veteran Charles Ezra Sprague. De Camp once noted that he rarely used pen-names, "partly because my own true name sounds more like a pseudonym than most pseudonyms do."
An aeronautical engineer by profession, De Camp conducted his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology (where his roommate was at one point noted rocket fuel scientist John Drury Clark), and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech in Aeronautical Engineering 1930. He earned his Master of Science degree in Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1933. De Camp was also a surveyor and an expert in patents.
In 1939, de Camp married Catherine Crook, with whom he collaborated on science fiction and nonfiction beginning in the 1960s.During World War II, de Camp served as a researcher at the Philadelphia Naval Yard along with his fellow writers Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. De Camp eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy as a reserve officer.
De Camp was a member of the all-male literary and dining club the "Trap Door Spiders" in New York City, which served as the basis of Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the "Black Widowers". De Camp himself was the model for the character named "Geoffrey Avalon".
De Camp was a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loosely-knit group of Heroic fantasy writers that was founded during the 1960s and led by Lin Carter, with entry by credentials as a fantasy writer alone.
The de Camps moved to Plano, Texas, in 1989. Sprague de Camp died there on November 6, 2000, seven months after his wife, on what would have been her birthday, just three weeks before his own 93rd birthday. His ashes were inurned, together with hers, in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
De Camp's personal library of about 1,200 books was acquired for auction by Half Price Books in 2005. The collection included books inscribed by fellow writers, such as Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan, as well as de Camp himself.
De Camp was a materialist who wrote works examining society, history, technology and myth. He published numerous short stories, novels, non-fiction works and poems during his long career.
De Camp had the mind of an educator, and a common theme in many of his works is a corrective impulse regarding similar previous works by other authors. A highly rational and logical thinker, he was frequently disturbed by what he regarded as logical lapses and absurdities in others' writings. Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel (Lest Darkness Fall) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.
In like fashion, he reimagined space opera and planetary romance in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series, and the prehistoric precursor civilizations characteristic of much heroic fantasy in his "Pusadian series". When he was not debunking literary conventions he was often explaining them. For example, in the "Harold Shea" stories co-written with his longtime friend Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956), the magical premises of some bodies of myths and legends were accepted but examined and elucidated in terms of their own systems of inherent logic. De Camp's explanatory tendency also carried over into his non-fictional writings.
De Camp and Willy Ley won the 1953 International Fantasy Award for nonfiction recognizing their study of geographical myths, Lands Beyond (Rinehart, 1952). De Camp was a guest of honor at the 1966 World Science Fiction Convention and was named the third Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, after Tolkien and Fritz Leiber, at the 1976 convention. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its fourth SFWA Grand Master in 1979 and he won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984, a Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 1996, citing "seminal works in the field", and the Hugo Award for Nonfiction in 1997 for his autobiography, Time and Chance.
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Krishna series
L. Sprague de Camp - The Queen Of Zamba (read by P.J. Ochlan)
L. Sprague de Camp - The Hand Of Zei (read by Michael McConnohie)
L. Sprague de Camp - The Hostage of Zir (read by P.J. Ochlan)
Novarian series book 3
L. Sprague de Camp - The Fallible Fiend (read by Nick Thurston)
Incorporated Knight series book 1
L. Sprague de Camp - The Incorporated Knight (read by Ray Chase)
Other
L. Sprague de Camp - Divide And Rule (read by Mike Chamberlain)
L. Sprague de Camp - The Undesired Princess (read by Ray Chase)
L. Sprague de Camp - The Tritonian Ring (read by Dave Courvoisier)
L. Sprague de Camp - The Compleat Enchanter (read by Ray Chase)
L. Sprague de Camp - Land Of Unreason (read by Ray Chase)
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Krishna series
http://rapidgator.net/file/1f6f970e331b232b44410e6511b7237b/The_Queen_Of_Zamba.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4fef4c666bd66dc73fcc44ed3bad8ca7/The_Hand_Of_Zei.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0870d06c943c11b56fb4fa79ffbeb06b/The_Hostage_Of_Zir.rar.html
Novarian series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8935380a168ec6298e3f5920b39d3488/The_Fallible_Fiend.rar.html
Incorporated Knight series
http://rapidgator.net/file/fa6b1c0a6811a01085d618c41611bff2/The_Incorporated_Knight.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/05d80c1caf5daed88322b4e4d46cf99a/Divide_And_Rule.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8a68ab37775db8bff52829a7b2badbad/The_Undesired_Princess.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9183db9e57117008d6b929b2e0d60376/The_Tritonian_Ring.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/560fcbcaa99f7fde08b8aaf9a88162d7/The_Compleat_Enchanter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1ced3fb86bcb34fb0c7ce15a762f7f05/Land_Of_Unreason.rar.html |
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