Science fiction handbook

Useful guide to writing science fiction stories and novels. Learn different writing styles, how to write dialog, plotting and characterization.

De Camp, L. Sprague

Literature & Fiction

McGraw=Hill

CONTENTS: 
<pre> TRIPS IN TIME A Gun For Dinosaur Galaxy 3/56 Aristotle and the Gun Astounding 2/56 GADGETS & PROJECTS The Guided Man Startling 10/52 Internal Combustion Infinity 2/56 Cornzan the Mighty Future #28, 1955 Throwback Astounding 3/49 Judgment Day Astounding 8/55 SUBURBAN SKETCHES A Thing of Custom Fantastic Universe 1/57 The Egg Satellite 10/56 Let's Have Fun SF Quarterly 5/57 Gratitude Galaxy 7/55 (as *Property of Venus*) FAR PLACES Impractical Joke Future #29, 1956 In-Group Marvel SF, 1952 New Arcadia Future #30, 1956 </pre>

A Gun For Dinosaur

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Curtis Books

Explorers from Earth inadvertently influence an alien civilization that has developed a bee-like social structure

Rogue Queen

Bluejay

Citadels of Mystery

Religion & Spirituality

Ballantine Books

289 pages - illustrated with photos - clues to the ways of the ancient knowledge are found in the ruins of twelve civilizations

De Camp, Catherine Crook

Occult & Paranormal

History

A popular history of lost continents, of which Atlantis is probably the best known, by the acclaimed sci-fi writer.

Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ballantine

Lovecraft: A Biography

Contemporary

The Tritonian Ring

Night falls on the bronze-age world of Poseidonis, a continent threatened with destruction. 
In the smoke of the magician's fire appears the figure of the witch Gra. "What wish the lords of Lorsk with me?" 
"Advise us how to avert the menace of the Gorgons," the magician answers. "Send Prince Vakar to seek the thing the gods fear most!" 
And so begins the quest....

THE TRITONIAN RING

Del Rey

Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as "Lest Darkness Fall" has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the 'favorite' books of many of the masters of the field, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish time-travel as solid sub-genre of science fiction.An indication of the influence and longevity of the book is the number of best-selling writers who have written stories in direct response to, or influenced by, Lest Darkness Fall. This new volume also includes three such stories by Frederik Pohl, David Drake and S. M. Stirling written over a period of forty-three years-a testament to the timelessness of the book. Similar, thematically, to Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," the book tells the tale of Martin Padway who, as he is walking around in modern Rome, is suddenly transported though time to 6th Century Rome.Once in ancient Rome, Padway (now Martinus Paduei Quastor) embarks on an ambitious project of single-handedly changing history.L. Sprague de Camp was a student of history (and the author of a number of popular works on the subject). "In Lest Darkness Fall" he combines his extensive knowledge of the workings of ancient Rome with his extraordinary imagination to create one of the best books of time travel ever written.

LEST DARKNESS FALL

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