The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 1: Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber
The World in the Satin Bag (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... League by Poul Anderson --The Continent of Lies by James Morrow --Land of Unreason by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt --A Day For Damnation by David Gerrold --Other Americas by Norman Spinrad --The Face of Chaos edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey --New Writings in SF8 edited by John Carnell --The Web of the Chozen by Jack L. Chalker --Nightwings by Robert Silverberg...
Military Analysis (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... War II, he did aeronautical engineering for the U.S. Navy , also recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania." 3. Sprague de Camp . Sprague de Camp in the center, Heinlein on the left, Asimov on the right. "Trained as an aeronautical engineer, De Camp received a Bachelor of Science...
The Fate of the Artist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... paperback format, to go on the bookshelf next to those CONAN fix-ups by Lin Carter and L Sprague De Camp" Note that in his perfectly sensible concept of it, the 'graphic novel' is separate from the format in which it appears (two different in the above), which is interesting because there are a lot of otherwise intelligent people in the 'graphic novel' business who can't separate...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... in Toronto, reading and re-reading them indiscriminately -- the Robert E Howard originals, the L Sprague De Camp books, all of it. The first book I ever attempted to write, at the age of 12, was a blood-soaked homage to Conan, in which the phrase "mighty thews" appeared in practically every paragraph. (As I recall, I also talked my mom into reading some of the Conan stories aloud...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... in Toronto, reading and re-reading them indiscriminately -- the Robert E Howard originals, the L Sprague De Camp books, all of it. The first book I ever attempted to write, at the age of 12, was a blood-soaked homage to Conan, in which the phrase "mighty thews" appeared in practically every paragraph. (As I recall, I also talked my mom into reading some of the Conan stories aloud...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
... I said I'd read some decades ago was really by August Derleth. Was it perhaps actually L. Sprague de Camp's 1975 bio? Possibly. I lost the book long since. 1975 seems a bit late; my total-immersion scifi/fantasy phase ended about ten years before that. I picked up the odd book post-phase, though (and still do -- I have just recently discovered Vernor Vinge ) . . .
