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The first works I read by L. Sprague de Camp were not his science fiction or fantasy novels, but his historical novels (An Elephant for Aristotle stands out in my memory) and his non-fiction books, including Day of the Dinosaur (with his wife Catherine) and The Ancient Engineers. A suggestion by a librarian put me onto his excellent time travel/alternate history novel, Lest Darkness Fall, and through that I discovered the V.I./Krishna books in the science fiction section and the Harold Shea novels among the fantasy titles. For some reason, his Conan novels were not shelved with the rest of the SF/fantasy titles, and I did not discover them until after I entered college. L. Sprague de Camp was one of the finest authors of SF's Golden age, and produced a vast range of excellent fantasy, historical, and non-fiction works as well. |
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