Catherine Crook de Camp was an American author and editor in the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Much of her literary output was a collaboration with her husband, L. Sprague de Camp, with whom she shared sixty years. Her solo endeavors leaned towards non-fiction. Her writing explored themes reflecting her background in economics and literature, characterized by precision and insight.
On the planet Krishna, Fergus Reith, his former wife, the lovely and sexy Dr. Alicia Dyckman, and famed paleontologist Dr. Aristide Marot search for the elusive Ozymandias and find themselves in the middle of a civil war
Citadels of Mystery is also known as Ancient Ruins and Archaeology. The past yields its secrets reluctantly; blues to the ways ancient knowledge are found in the ruins of twelve civilizations, including an exploration of theories of space invaders, created earth or man, and Atlantis.
This fascinating book is not only about the Age of Reptiles and the lumbering dragons who inhabited that eerie world, but it is also about some of those interesting people who, millions of years later, found and identified their remains. Here is both the drama and the humour involved in searching for their bones; here, too, is the painstaking detective work that goes into reconstructing their shapes and environments.
Když Thorolf Zigramson, voják Rhaetijské pravidelné armády, najde za keřem nahou hraběnku Yvette, jeho život se od základu změní. Atraktívní šlechtična v nesnázích nejenže požaduje jeho plášť, odvoz do města, čaroděje, který by změnil její vzhled a hrdinu, který by pro ní zpět vybojoval její panství, ale – a to je ze všeho nejhorší – aby to Thorolf všechno zaplatil.