Time and Chance: an Autobiography

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Time and Chance: an Autobiography  
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Author(s) L. Sprague deCamp
Cover artist Frank Kelly Freas and Thomas Canty
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Biography
Publisher Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
Publication date 1996
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 444 pp
ISBN 1880418320
OCLC Number 36569358
Dewey Decimal 813/.52 B 21
LC Classification PS3507.E2344 Z464 1996

Time and Chance: an Autobiography is the autobiography of science fiction and fantasy writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.[1][2] The book won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book.

The book covers the writer's life and ancestry in a series of vignettes extending from the immigration of his ancestor Laurent de Camp to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1664 to his own move to Plano, Texas in 1989. The main focus is on his own life, travels, works, and friends in the writing community, such as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. There is little in the way of evaluation of his work, a task he leaves in the main for others.

[edit] References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. p. 338. 

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