Lyon (El) Sprag de Camp ( born Lyon "L." Sprague de Camp , , - , ) is an American science fiction writer, one of the founders of the fantasy genre .
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| Occupation | prose writer |
| Genre | science fiction , non-fiction |
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| Debut | Lest Darkness Fall |
| Awards | Nebula 1978 (Grandmaster), Hugo 1997 (autobiography) |
| Awards | Damon Knight Memorial Award Grandmaster of Fiction ( 1979 ) [d] ( 1984 ) [d] ( 1997 ) [d] ( 1998 ) [d] |
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Biography
Born in New York in 1907. He graduated from California Institute of Technology . In World War II he served in the Navy , where he met Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein , other famous science fiction writers.
Among de Camp's most famous works is a series of humorous fantasy about the wizard Harold Shea, co-authored with Fletcher Pratt . Lyon, along with Lin Carter , one of the initiators of the multi-author continuation of the Conan saga, the author of several books about this character, wrote drafts of Robert E. Howard .
One of the founders of modern alternative historical literature ( May darkness not fall ).
In addition, he is the author of a number of biographies of science fiction colleagues and popular science books in which he writes about scientific discoveries and inventions or from the standpoint of materialism debunking pseudo-scientific theories about the supernatural, “lost civilizations and continents.”
Bibliography
Science Fiction
- 1939 - Lest Darkness Fall
- 1948 - The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction
- 1950 - Genus Homo (with P. Schuyler Miller)
- 1950 - The Hand of Zei
- 1951 - Rogue Queen
- 1953 - The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens
- 1953 - The Virgin of Zesh
- 1960 - The Glory That Was
- 1963 - A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales
- 1978 - The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
Fantasy
- Certified Sorcerer The Incomplete Enchanter (1941) (with Fletcher Pratt )
- Land of Unreason (1942)
- The Rejected Princess The Undesired Princess (1951)
- Gavagan's Bar Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953, exp. 1978) (with Fletcher Pratt )
- The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales (1953)
- Conan Tales of Conan (1955) (with Robert Howard )
- Conan Classic Saga Conan the Adventurer (collection) | Conan the Adventurer (1966)
- The Goblin Tower (1968)
- Watch Iraza The Clocks of Iraz (1971)
- The Demon That Mistaken The Fallible Fiend (1973)
- Xylar's Crown The Unbeheaded King (1983)
Others
- Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature (1954) - a critical review of the literature on Atlantis , published in Russian in 2007 (published by Centerpolygraph )
- The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961) - the first historical novel of the author
- Swords and Sorcery (1963)
- Lovecraft: Biography Lovecraft: a Biography (1975) - a biography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft , published in Russian in 2008 (published by Amphora )
Prizes and Awards
- 1953, International Fantasy Award in the Non-Fiction category for Lands Beyond (1952)
- 1972, British Fantasy Award in the Story category for The Fallible Fiend (1972)
- 1976, Hugo Award . Gandalf Grandmaster Fantasy Award
- 1978, Nebula Award . Grandmaster Award
- 1984, World Fantasy Award . Award for Merit to the Genre
- 1995, Sidewise Awards . Award "For Special Contribution to the Development of the Genre"
- 1997, Hugo Award in the Non-Fiction category for Time & Chance: An Autobiography (1996)
- 1998, SFRA Awards . Pilgrim Award
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- ↑ 1 2 http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/de_Camp__Lyon_Sprague.html
- ↑ 1 2 http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/deCamp-0.html
- ↑ 1 2 http://www.sfsite.com/10b/cl138.htm
- ↑ 1 2 http://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0552.html
Links
- Official site
- Lyon Spray de Camp on the Fantasy Lab website