About the book: 2019 / Lion Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) - American science fiction writer, one of the founders of the fantasy genre. Roger Zelazny , Robert Silverberg, Clifford Simak... the masters of classical English-language fiction were generally distinguished by their ability to “play” with genres and create truly “explosive” mixtures from them. However, the versatility of the talent of L. Sprague de Camp, “released” into great literature by D. Campbell and which has already become popular in the late 1940s is stunning even in the context of such comparisons. "Traditional" science fiction and "alternative history", "time travel", fantasy and works in which the traditions of science fiction and fantasy are intricately and closely intertwined - the literary gift of Sprague de Camp, who was awarded the title of Grand Master in 1978, was subject to ALL...Contents:Interplanetary tours (cycle)Novaria (cycle)Pusad stories (cycle)Let the darkness not fall!The Strangest Bar in the Universe