Author: DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE
Title: The Great Fetish
Description: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385131399. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small nicks and some beginning rubbing to the top spine end. "De Camp's science fiction is marked by his interests in linguistics, ancient history, and the history and philosophy of science. His first published story was "The Isolinguals", in the September 1937 issue of Astounding Science Fiction—the last issue edited by F. Orlin Tremaine, prior to the long tenure of John W. Campbell. Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his "Johnny Black" tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his "Drinkwhiskey Institute" stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel. Campbell's fantasy magazine, Unknown, was suited to de Camp's idiosyncratic imagination, logic, and sense of humor. He contributed ten novels (five as collaborations) , much of it characterized by humor and dry wit. De Camp eschewed the intention of being a satirist, insisting, instead, that the stories he wrote were meant less for instruction or improvement, as satire requires, and more for the amusement of his readers. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385131399 Science Fiction L. Sprague Decamp Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Fiction Satire
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Title: The Great Fetish
Description: New York: Doubleday & Company, 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385131399. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small nicks and some beginning rubbing to the top spine end. "De Camp's science fiction is marked by his interests in linguistics, ancient history, and the history and philosophy of science. His first published story was "The Isolinguals", in the September 1937 issue of Astounding Science Fiction—the last issue edited by F. Orlin Tremaine, prior to the long tenure of John W. Campbell. Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his "Johnny Black" tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his "Drinkwhiskey Institute" stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel. Campbell's fantasy magazine, Unknown, was suited to de Camp's idiosyncratic imagination, logic, and sense of humor. He contributed ten novels (five as collaborations) , much of it characterized by humor and dry wit. De Camp eschewed the intention of being a satirist, insisting, instead, that the stories he wrote were meant less for instruction or improvement, as satire requires, and more for the amusement of his readers. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385131399 Science Fiction L. Sprague Decamp Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Fiction Satire
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- Book number: 42490
- Book number: 42490
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