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Language for Time Travelers [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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A non-fiction essay on the nature of change in the English language. Mr. de Camp's examples include a fictional account of a time traveler's communication difficulties 500 years into the future. 1938
Words: 5066 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: General Nonfiction
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Conan the Liberator [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by L. Sprague de Camp & Carter Lin
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In marketplace and roadside inn, in village and hamlet, it's whispered across the land: the Liberator comes! Conan the barbarian leads an army of warriors to smash the tyrannical reign of King Numedides. Conan and his rebels thought their battles would be fought with spear and sword, axe and dagger. In this they were mistaken, for their greatest foe remains: the vile sorcerer Thulandra Thuu. Dark clouds loom ahead for the people of Aquilonia; only Conan can save them. 2002
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The Inspector's Teeth [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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The Osirian ambassador is on his way to Earth to annouce his decision on a proposed peace treaty that will secure relations as members of an Interplanetary Council. The representatives of Earth, however, have differing opinions on whether the reptilian alien will ratify the treaty, but before making the announcement, the alien launches into a story about his days as a freshman pledge at an American university ... which he promises will explain the motivation for his decision. 1950
Words: 4952 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Conan and the Spider God [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Wrongly accused of kidnapping a queen, Conan pursues the real captors, cutting a bloody swath through assassins and bounty hunters all the way to the sinister temple of Zath. There, he must do battle with the monstrous Spider God to win his freedom. 2002
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The Reluctant Shaman [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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In a small upstate New York tourist town, Penobscot Indian Virgil Hathaway's curio shop is invaded by the legendary spirits of eight two-foot-tall Iroquois warriors. The pesky bunch are left in his care by a group of Iroquois traveling into Canada, and although the little Chief and his seven warriors have promised to behave themselves, they can't help taunting the locals and having some spirited fun. 1970 Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 4483 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Merman [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Aquatic scientist Vernon Brock develops an organic vapor that he hopes will allow a baby alligator to breathe under water. When he accidentally drops the beaker containing his halogen-bearing compounds, Vernon realizes he'd never considered how similar an alligator's lungs are to his own. 1938
Words: 6122 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Hyperpilosity [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Virologist Pat Weiss tells the story of how the Great Change started all those years ago when he was still a student ... the annual flu virus had come around with all the expected symptoms, but the hirsute side effect it had on its victims appeared permanent. If the cure he searched for had turned out the way he expected, he would have become a very rich man.... 1938
Words: 4885 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Emperor's Fan [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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In a fantasy kingdom of wizards and dragons, the volitile Emperor Tsotuga hastened his ascension to his throne by secretly poisoning his father. Now living in constant fear of assassins, Tsotuga orders an audience with a traveling wizard who is rumored to carry an ancient mystical weapon--one that will secure the Emperor's personal safety, but may endanger his throne. 1973
Words: 5840 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Judgment Day [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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As a boy, the scrawny and bookish Wade Ormont was tormented by his classmates, bitterly enduring years of physical and psychological abuse. As an adult, brilliant physicist Wade Ormont, Ph.D. discovers an equation describing how an iron-based chain reaction would effectively blow the crust off the Earth, and he struggles to find a reason not to take his revenge. 1955
Words: 7818 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Guided Man [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Mild-mannered country boy Ovid Ross has made the big move to New York City, and tomorrow is his first job interview. His debilitating anxiety over the situation prompts him to get some help from the friendly people at the Telagog Company, and the hypospatial receiver they implant in his skull will allow someone with experience--in this case, Gilbert Falck, a Telagog 'controller' exceptionally skilled at giving interviews--to control Ovid's body through the crisis. When Ovid's initial success in ... more info>> 1952
Words: 11432 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Gun for Dinosaur [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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[A Reginald Rivers story.] A time machine that transports back to the age of dinosaurs is invaluable to the research scientists at Washington University, but the extraordinary costs of running the machine has forced the university to enter into a business arrangement with the Rivers and Aiyar big-game safari company. For an exorbitant fee, Reginal Rivers and his partner Raja Aiyar will escort you on a dinosaur hunt in the eon of your choice ... provided you can handle the wide-gage weaponry requ... more info>> 1956
Words: 10649 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Two Yards of Dragon [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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In an enchanted world of kings and wizards, young squire Eudoric Dambertson has reached his 23rd year--and like young men are wont to do, Eudoric has fallen in love with a fair maiden. He courts Lusina, daughter of Baron Emmerhard, but Eudoric has no means to purchase Lusina's hand in marriage, and the 13 years of peace in the land offer him no means to improve his station as a knight. The shrewd Eudoric strikes an arrangement with the enchanter Baldonius for his magical assistance in acquiring ... more info>> 1976
Words: 9697 - Reading Time: 27-38 min.
Category: Fantasy
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L. Sprague de Camp: Three Short SF and Fantasy Poems [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Three short poems from SF and Fantasy grandmaster L. Sprague de Camp. 1978
Words: 536 - Reading Time: 1-2 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Employment [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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A paleontologist discovers an electrolytic method of reanimating fossils into their original living forms, and the unlikely zookeeper gets into trouble trying to keep his prehistoric zoo under control ... and out of reach of a hostile business takeover. 1939
Words: 6943 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Gnarly Man [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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An ambitious anthropologist visiting New York City for a professional conference takes a siteseeing trip to Coney Island, and on a whim decides to pay the ten cent entrance fee to see Ungo-Bungo the ferocious ape-man. Her professional interest is piqued by the very convincing not-quite-human specimen performing the phony cage-rattling routine, but when she gets a chance to speak to Mr. Bungo, she can't decide if he's a crackpot ... or her ticket to anthropological stardom. 1939
Words: 8154 - Reading Time: 23-32 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Command [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Johnny Black, a black bear with a chemically-enhanced intelligect, wakes up in his island home at the St. Croix biological research station to find all the humans languishing in a semi-comatose state. As Johnny investigates the source of the mysterious calamity, he discovers the true nature of the experiments being run by the biologist next door ... and Johnny realizes he is the only thing that stands in the way of the biologist's evil plan of world domination. 1938
Words: 5494 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Nothing in the Rules [MultiFormat]
by L. Sprague de Camp
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Two rival swimming coaches will do anything to gain a competitive edge for an upcoming women's meet, and the rules are stretched to the limit when one of the coaches enters a mermaid in the contest. The other coach has to retaliate before the meet is lost, and comes up with a fishy counter-plan that has the referee doing flips with his ruleBook! 1939
Words: 10589 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
Category: Fantasy
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