3000 Years of Fantasy & Science Fiction – L. Sprague De Camp (1972) (1st ed)

S$65.00

3000 Years of Fantasy & Science Fiction – L. Sprague De Camp (1972) (1st ed)

S$65.00

Title: 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Author: L. Sprague de Camp (ed.), Catherine Crook de Camp (ed.), Isaac Asimov (foreword)

Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Company, New York, 1972. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Spine slightly rubbed.

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Contents:

Foreword by Isaac Asimov
Introduction
Homer – The Odyssey (excerpt)
Plato – Timaios (excerpt)
Cyrano de Bergerac – A Journey to the Moon (abridged)
H. G. Wells – The New Accelerator
H. P. Lovecraft – The Cats of Ulthar
Stanley G. Weinbaum – A Martian Odyssey
Lester del Rey – Helen O’Loy
Tom Godwin – The Cold Equations
L. Sprague de Camp – A Gun for Dinosaur
Arthur C. Clarke – Before Eden
Isaac Asimov – The Last Question
Milestones – Novels Worth Reading

About the editor (from Wikipedia):

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, such as biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.