L. Sprague de Camp

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1939
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Reluctant King

1 - The Goblin Tower (1989)
3 - The Unbeheaded King (Mar-1983)

Multi-Author Series List

Conan

Conan and the Spider God (1991)
13 - Conan the Swordsman (Jul-1991)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • Divide and Rule

    • / General Fiction
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    DIVIDE AND RULE What happens when the "hoppers" (invaders from another world, they look rather like kangeroos) take over? Well, knighthood flowers, for one thing--knighthood enforced by the aliens, who see it as an easy way of keeping Earth's popula...

  • Lest Darkness Fall

    • / Science Fiction
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    A Step Out of Time One minute archeologist Martin Padway is casually ambling through modern Rome. In an instant he is inexplicably hurtled back through time to 6th Century Italy--just before the Dark Ages. With one foot firmly rooted in the 20t...

  • The Wheels of If

    • / General Fiction
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  • A Thing of Custom

    in The Late Great Future
    • / General Fiction
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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: • Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

  • Continent Makers

  • Rogue Queen

    Rogue Queen is a ground-breaking novel by L. Sprague de Camp that was one of the first science fiction books to deal with sexual themes, paving the way for more daring works by future authors. *** Part of the Viagens Interplanetarias series, the stor...

  • The Emperor's Fan

    in Astounding
    • / Science Fiction
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  • 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 ...

  • Adventurers



  • The Blade of Conan

    Members of the Hyborian Legion invite YOU to join them inside the wondrous world of Heroic Fantasy, a world whose brazen gates were opened to readers by the great Robert E. Howard with his mighty creation, CONAN the Barbarian. Now, enter those gat...

  • Tales from Gavagan's Bar

    Welcome to Gavagan's Bar - The Most Peculiar Drinking Establishment in the Universe - presided over by Mr. Aloysius P. Cohan, bartender. Harkin to the tales of such regular and not-so-regular customers as: * Councilman Maguire, who brought his own le...

  • The Sorcerers

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...

  • The Great Fetish

  • The Purple Pterodactyls

  • Hand of Zei

    Dirk Barnevelt knew he wasn't a hero, but somebody had to find the explorer who'd vanished on the low-tech planet, Krisha and to do that, somebody had to single-handedly rescue a beautiful princess from bloodthirsty pirates and to do that, somebod...

  • Heroes and Hobgoblins

    Ogres and ghosts, birds, beasts and creeping things, and places near and far are the focus of this bright and personal volume of verses. Winner of many awards for his Science Fiction and Fantasy stories, Mr. deCamp has been writing since the late 193...

  • The Spell of Conan

    The Spell of Conan, a Tribute to Robert E. Howard Edited by L. Sprague de Camp. 1st Edition ACE 1169-8 Paperback Original, July 1980. Collected from the pages of the Amra fanzine. Contents; "The Spell of Conan" by L. Sprague de Camp, "Introduction: S...

  • The Queen of Zamba

    Meet Victor Hasselborg, easily the most miserable Private Investigator in the entire galaxy. More comfortable with the dull routine of investigating insurance frauds than interstellar adventure, Hasselborg is bound by duty to chase a runaway heire...

  • The Hostage of Zir

    "

    Outside the walls of the starport Novorecife, Earthmen on the warrior planet Kishna are on their own. So when he is chosen to lead the first ersuma (Earth-tourists) through the sorcerer-kingdoms of this ""protected"" medieval world, Fergus Reith...



  • The Virgin of Zesh and the Tower of Zanid

    The Star-Rovers It is the Year 2168 -- and men have become star-rovers. The agreed-upon code is that sciences and gadgets beyond the cultural level of the peoples inhabiting the other planets will not be introduced by Earthmen, or other visitor...

  • The Prisoner of Zhamanak

    Percy Mjipa, diplomat-adventurer, and Alicta Dycknan, interplanetary runaway, both aliens on the alien world of Krishna, are swept up in wildly treacherous and wildly funny-imperial intrigue. At stake: the fate of an entire planet... and their own...

  • The Unbeheaded King

    Reluctant King - 3

  • Compleat Enchanter

    The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages—at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient legend. But...

  • Of the Isles

    As the Red Terror, a bizarre, magical dark force whose victims disappear without a trace, descends upon Aquilonia, King Conan sets out to destroy its source, evil, conquest-hungry sorcerer-priests from across the sea. Reissue....

  • The Bones of Zora

    On the planet Krishna, Fergus Reith, his former wife, the lovely and sexy Dr. Alicia Dyckman, and famed paleontologist Dr. Aristide Marot search for the elusive Ozymandias and find themselves in the middle of a civil war...

  • Best of L. Sprague de Camp

    Ballantine Del Rey paperback, second printing, 1986. Includes introduction, "L. Sprague de Camp -- Engineer and Sorcerer" (essay) by Poul Anderson, and these works: Hyperpelosity (1938); Language for Time Travelers (1938, essay); The Command [Johnny ...

  • Dark Valley Destiny

    Synopsis: This is the definitive biography of Robert E. Howard, a giant of the pulp era, who created the archetypal brooding fantasy figure. To the general public, he is virtually unknown, but millions are familiar with the name and exploits of his m...

  • The Gnarly Man

    in Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #6

  • The Incorporated Knight

    Preferring trade to chivalry, practical-minded Eudoric Dambertson reluctantly sets out to kill a dragon to appease his would-be father-in-law and learns some discomfiting truths about dragon aying.

    ...



  • The Clocks of Iraz

    The Best Mislaid Plans Wizardly schemes, Jorian knew went oft a-gley. But this time the wizard's plan seemed simple. Since ancient prophecy foretold that the clocks would save Iraz, Jorian must repair the great tower clocks that his father had bui...

  • The Goblin Tower

    Reluctant King - 1

    King Jorian was rather attached to his head. Hence, he felt his promise to seal the Kist of Avlen, a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts on magic, was little enough a price to pay for a chance to escape his own beheading. But when the quest pitt...

  • Citadels of Mystery

  • The Complete Compleat Enchanter

  • Land of Unreason

    On Midsummer''s Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately—or fortunately—Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn''t take the obligation with proper seriousness...

  • The Honorable Barbarian

    The Whims of Destiny Jorian, the one-time unbeheaded king, was now safely retired from a long career of getting into trouble. But his younger brother Kerin lacked such wisdom. The outraged father of Adeliza had caught him in compromising circumsta...

  • Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny

    The Undesired Princess finds the overly practical Rollin Hobart transported to a far-from-sensible world, while in The Enchanted Bunny, ghostwriter Joe Johnson falls into the middle of a fairy tale. Reissue....

  • The Swords of Zinjaban

    The Producer thinks he''s God''s gift to women—whether they''re human or alien. The Director is delighted to work on a wild and woolly planet, where he can really behave like Attila the Hun. Some of the local natives are trying to steal the ...

  • Conan and the Spider God

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan

    Conan is back, and at the top of his form!SFWA Grand Master L. Sprague de Camp was revered in the genre of fantasy for both his fiction and nonfiction. Booklist praised his novel The Honorable Barbarian, saying: "The action is brisk, and the worlds a...

  • The Stones of Nomuru



  • Conan the Swordsman

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan - 13

    Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who tower...

  • The Glory That Was

    When the World Emperor of the 27th century seals off Greece behind a force wall and Wiyem Flin''s wife soon disappears, Knut Bulnes agrees to help look behind the wall for the woman. The two soon find themselves in Classical Greece.

    ...

  • The Fallible Fiend

    Ordered to spend a year's servitude on the human plane, Zdim the demon, a mild-mannered scholar of logic and philosophy, becomes the city of Ir's last chance when a barbarian armada threatens to attack. Reprint....

  • Pixilated Peeress

    Discovering the countess Yvette hiding behind a bush without any clothes on, Sergeant Thorolf is soon enlisted to take her to Rhaetia, a wizard, in order that he might change her form and help her elude her pursuers. Reprint....

  • The Undesired Princess & the Enchanted Bunny

  • Venom Trees of Sunga

    Embroiled in his field work in the arboreal world of Sunga, biologist Kirk Salazar must put up with hard-core tourists, an ignorant industrialist, and Alexis Ritter, the formidable high priestess of a Sunga cult dedicated to chastity. Original....

  • Rivers of Time

    A guide for big game hunters, Reginald Rivers leads a group of Creationists bent on disproving evolution and an animal rights fanatic back in time to the world of the biggest game of all--dinosaurs. Original....

  • The Exotic Enchanter

    Careening through a mythological universe, partners Harold Shea and Reed Chalmers travel to the Russia of Prince Igor, the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the island of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Original....

  • The Reluctant King

    Fearing the planetary policy that all former rulers must be executed, King Jorian of Xylar flees the planet at the end of his five-year reign and requests the help of the wizard Karadur to help him rescue his wife. Original....

  • Down in the Bottomlands: (And Other Places)

    LAWYER IN A STRANGE LAND In the real world, the Mediterranean basin dried up several times, only to refill again. If it hadn't, what's really sea bottom would have become the most savage desert in the world. Mild-mannered Radnal vez Krobir likes i...



  • Two Years of Dragon

    in Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic

  • Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories

  • None But Lucifer

  • Years in the Making

  • Aristotle and the Gun

    Here is the complete first edition of The Science of Mind. For the careful practitioner this is the preferred edition, as later editions lacked the power and focus of this edition and were simply less readable. Here you will find six lessons and coun...

  • An Elephant for Aristotle

    What finer way for Alexander the Great to honor his old tutor Aristotle than to send him an actual Indian elephant.After capturing a magnificent specimen from an Indian ruler, Alexander tasks Leon of Atrax, a cavalry commander, to deliver the animal ...

  • The Bronze God of Rhodes

    The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as the memoirs of Chares of Lindos.Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. A pupil of Lysippos, Chares eventually built the Colossus of Rhodes, now considered to be one of the Seven Wond...

  • The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate

    Bessas of Zariaspa is a young officer in the Immortals regiment, sworn to protect and obey his King at all costs. The King wishes immortality and to that end tasks Bessas to find items that make an immortality potion, including the blood of a dragon ...

  • The Arrows of Hercules

    Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the 4th century BC, Th e Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult. He is quickly drafted by Dionysios into Syracuseâ...

  • The Golden Wind

    "A tale of high adventure, rich in historical lore and erudite in the telling. Of Mr. de Camp's ... novels, this may well be the most ambitious and quite possibly the best."-Publishers Weekly *** The Golden Wind is the last of the five classic histor...

  • Footprints on Sand

    This collection of the de Camps' work, singly and in collaboration with each other, was assembled in honor of their appearance as joint Guests of Honor at X-Con, June 1981 in Milwaukee.It is a selection of short stories, verse, non-fiction, and excer...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

L. Sprague de Camp has published 60 books.

L. Sprague de Camp does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Footprints on Sand, was published in February 2021.

The first book by L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall, was published in January 1939.

Yes. L. Sprague de Camp has 1 series.
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