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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781886778474 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1886778477 Label: Nesfa Pr Manufacturer: Nesfa Pr Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: February 28, 2005 Publisher: Nesfa Pr Release Date: February 28, 2005 Studio: Nesfa Pr Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: L. Sprague de Camp was a master of the time travel and alternate history story. In many respects his novel Lest Darkness Fall founded alternate history, while "Aristotle and the Gun" is probably one of the best stories about tinkering with history ever written. In addition we include stories of time travel both backwards and forwards and de Camp's wonderful essay "Language for Time-Travelers". This is a collection of L. Sprague de Camp's SF best stories and essays dealing with time travel. It is the first volume of a projected series of stories and novels by L. Sprague de Camp. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Collection that is among the best!L. Sprague de Camp is one of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction. He was the second person to be named to a Grand Master by SFWA. His writing is very much like that of a Big Three, and he started writing before Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, or Arthur C. Clarke. If you read the work of the Big Three, then de Camp is something right up your alley. Although de Camp did not invent the idea of the Alternate History story, he was most probably the best writer of that sub-genre of SF. ... Read More Rating: - As good as an athology getsDe Camp pretty much founded the Alternate History literary genre. These stories were groundbreaking in their time, and their wit and originality has not been surpassed. De Camp was a learned man and his research is exhaustive. I recommend "Balsamo's Mirror" to anyone who attends Renaissance festivals, and "The Wheels of If" to anyone who worships their Celtic roots. 
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