About the book: year / Lion Sprague de Camp "The Great Fetish. Stories" This book has an unusual story. The novel was supposed to become part of one of the first shared-world series - but did not, since De Camp's concept turned out to be unacceptable for a sci-fi project. John Campbell was supposed to publish it, but at the last moment he refused; the descriptions of erotic rituals seemed overly explicit to the editor. And so in the 70s, De Camp reworked this amazing adventure satire - and a funny, cynical and at the same time extremely effective novel appeared. Contents: The Great Fetish (The Great Fetish, 1978, novel), The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (Collection of stories) The Reluctant Shaman (The Reluctant Shaman, 1947, translation by M. Petrunkin, N. Berdennikov), Wood of the first category (The Hardwood Pile, 1940), Nothing in the Rules (1939), The Wisdom of the East (1942), Mr. Arson (1941), Ka the Appalling, 1958).