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Bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction and nonfiction writer L. Sprague de Camp:

Science fiction

The Viagens Interplanetarias

Main article: Viagens Interplanetarias
  • Krishna
    • "Finished" (1949 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953))
    • "Perpetual Motion" (1950 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953) and The Queen of Zamba (1977))
    • The Queen of Zamba (1949 - collected in The Queen of Zamba (1977)) [vt Cosmic Manhunt (1954)], ISBN 0-441-69658-9
    • "Calories" (1951 - collected in Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction (1953))
    • The Hand of Zei (1950), ISBN 0-671-69865-6
    • The Hostage of Zir (1977)
    • The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982)
    • The Virgin of Zesh (1953 - collected in The Virgin & the Wheels (1976) and The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid (1982)), ISBN 0-441-86495-3
    • The Bones of Zora (1983) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
    • The Tower of Zanid (1958 - collected in The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid (1982)), ISBN 0-441-86495-3
    • The Swords of Zinjaban (1991) (with Catherine Crook de Camp)
  • Earth
    • "The Colorful Character" (1949 - collected in Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction (1953))
    • "The Inspector's Teeth" (1950 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
    • "The Continent Makers" (1951 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953))
  • Osiris
    • "Summer Wear" (1950 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953))
    • "Git Along!" (1950 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953))
  • Vishnu
    • "The Galton Whistle" (1951 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953))
    • "The Animal-Cracker Plot" (1949 - collected in The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens (1953))
  • Ormazd
  • Kukulkan
  • Collections

Reginald Rivers

  • "A Gun for Dinosaur" (1956 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963), The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978), Rivers of Time (1993), Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories (2002) and Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005))
  • "The Cayuse" (1993 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993))
  • "Crocamander Quest" (1992 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993))
  • "Miocene Romance" (1993 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993))
  • "The Synthetic Barbarian" (1992 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993))
  • "The Satanic Illusion" (1992 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993))
  • "The Big Splash" (1992 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993))
  • "The Mislaid Mastodon" (1993 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993) and Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories (2002))
  • "The Honeymoon Dragon" (1993 - collected in Rivers of Time (1993) and Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories (2002))
  • Rivers of Time (collection) (1993)

Johnny Black

  • "The Command" (1938 - collected in The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978); rewritten as "The Bear Who Saved the World" (1977, with Catherine Crook de Camp))
  • "The Incorrigible" (1939)
  • "The Emancipated" (1940)
  • "The Exalted" (1940)

Drinkwhiskey Institute

  • "Some Curious Effects of Time Travel" (1942 - collected in Scribblings (1972))
  • "The Anecdote of the Negative Wugug" (1942 - collected in Scribblings (1972))
  • "The Anecdote of the Movable Ears" (1943 - collected in Scribblings (1972))
  • "The Lusts of Professor Adams" (1972 - collected in Scribblings (1972))

Other science fiction novels and collections

Other science fiction short stories

  • "The Isolinguals" (1937 - collected in Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005))
  • "Hyperpilosity" (1938 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
  • "The Merman" (1938 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
  • "Ananias" (1939)
  • "Divide and Rule" (1939 - collected in Divide and Rule (1948))
  • "Employment" (1939 - collected in The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
  • "Living Fossil" (1939)
  • "The Blue Giraffe" (1939)
  • "The Gnarly Man" (1939 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948), The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978), Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories (2002) and Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005))
  • "The Hairless Ones Come" (1939)
  • "Asokore Power" (1940)
  • "Inverse Variation" (1940)
  • "Juice" (1940 - collected in Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction (1953))
  • "The Warrior Race" (1940 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948) and Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005))
  • "The Wheels of If" (1940 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948) and The Virgin & the Wheels (1976))
  • "Invaders From Nowhere" (1941)
  • "The Best-Laid Scheme" (1941 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948))
  • "The Stolen Dormouse" (1941 - collected in Divide and Rule (1948))
  • "The Contraband Cow" (1942 - collected in The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (1948))
  • "The Hibited Man" (1949)
  • "Throwback" (1949 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "In-Group" (1952 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Proposal" (1952 - collected in Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction (1953))
  • "The Blunderer" (1952)
  • "The Guided Man" (1952 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
  • "The Ordeal of Professor Klein" (1952)
  • "The Saxon Pretender" (1952 - collected in Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction (1953))
  • "The Soaring Statue" (1952)
  • "The Space Clause" (1952 - collected in Sprague de Camp's New Anthology of Science Fiction (1953) and Footprints on Sand (1981))
  • "Cornzan the Mighty" (1955 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Gratitude" (1955 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Judgment Day" (1955 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
  • "Possession" (1955)
  • "Impractical Joke" (1956 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Internal Combustion" (1956 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "New Arcadia" (1956 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "The Egg" (1956 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Wyvernhold" (1956)
  • "A Thing of Custom" (1957 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Let's Have Fun" (1957 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963))
  • "Aristotle and the Gun" (1958 - collected in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (1963), Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories (2002) and Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005))
  • "Heretic in a Balloon" (1977 - collected in The Great Fetish (1978))
  • "The Witches of Manhattan" (1978 - collected in The Great Fetish (1978))
  • "The Round-Eyed Barbarians" (1992)

Fantasy

Harold Shea

Main article: Harold Shea

Original series

  1. "The Roaring Trumpet" (May 1940) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  2. "The Mathematics of Magic" (Aug. 1940) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  3. "The Castle of Iron" (Apr. 1941, expanded to novel length as The Castle of Iron, 1950) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  4. "The Wall of Serpents" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  5. "The Green Magician" (1954) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)

Later series

  1. "Professor Harold and the Trustees" (1992) (Christopher Stasheff)
  2. "Sir Harold and the Gnome King" (1990) (L. Sprague de Camp)
  3. "Sir Harold and the Monkey King" (1992) (Christopher Stasheff)
  4. "Knight and the Enemy" (1992) (Holly Lisle, from an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff)
  5. "Arms and the Enchanter" (1992) (John Maddox Roberts, from an outline by L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff)
  6. "Enchanter Kiev" (1995) (Roland J. Green & Frieda A. Murray)
  7. "Sir Harold and the Hindu King" (1995) (Christopher Stasheff)
  8. "Sir Harold of Zodanga" (1995) (L. Sprague de Camp)
  9. "Harold Shakespeare" (1995) (Tom Wham)
  10. "Return to Xanadu" (2005) (Lawrence Watt-Evans)

Collected editions

Gavagan's Bar

  • "The Gift of God" (1950) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Corpus Delectable" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Better Mousetrap" (1950) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Elephas Frumenti" (1950) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Beasts of Bourbon" (1951) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Love-Nest" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Stone of the Sages" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Where To, Please?" (1952) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Palimpsest of St. Augustine" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "More Than Skin Deep" (1951) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "No Forwarding Address" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "When the Night Wind Howls" (aka "Methought I Heard a Voice") (1951) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "My Brother's Keeper" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "A Dime Brings You Success" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Rape of the Lock" (1952) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "All That Glitters" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Here, Putzi!" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Gin Comes in Bottles" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Black Ball" (1952) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Green Thumb" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Caveat Emptor" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Eve of St. John" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Ancestral Amethyst" (1952) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Untimely Toper" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "One Man's Meat" (1953) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Oh, Say! Can You See?" (1959) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "Bell, Book, and Candle" (1959) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "There'd Be Thousands in It" (1978) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • "The Weissenbroch Spectacles" (1954) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)
  • Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953 collection, expanded 1978) (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt)

Pusadian Series

Main article: Pusadian series
The Tritonian Ring was originally published in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1951

Novarian series

Main article: Novarian series

Neo-Napolitanian series

W. Wilson Newbury

  • "Balsamo's Mirror" (1976 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980) and Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (2005))
  • "The Lamp" (1975 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "Algy" (1976 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980) and Footprints on Sand (1981))
  • "The Menhir" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "Darius" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "United Imp" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "Tiki" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "Far Babylon" (1976 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "The Yellow Man" (1978 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "A Sending of Serpents" (1979 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "The Huns" (1978 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "The Purple Pterodactyls" (1976 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "Dead Man's Chest" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "The Figurine" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • "Priapus" (1977 - collected in The Purple Pterodactyls (1980))
  • The Purple Pterodactyls (collection) (1980)

Conan

Novels

Collections

Short stories

Other fantasy novels and collections

Other fantasy short stories

  • "Nothing in the Rules" (1939 - collected in The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (1970), The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978) and Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories (2002))
  • "Retirement" (1940)
  • "The Hardwood Pile" (1940 - collected in The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (1970) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))
  • "Mr. Arson" (1941 - collected in The Undesired Princess (1951) and The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (1970))
  • "The Last Drop" (1941) (with L. Ron Hubbard)
  • "The Undesired Princess" (1942 - collected in The Undesired Princess (1951))
  • "The Wisdom of the East" (1942 - collected in The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (1970))
  • "The Ghosts of Melvin Pye" (1946 - collected in The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (1970))
  • "The Reluctant Shaman" (1947 - collected in The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales (1970) and The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (1978))

Edited

Fantasy anthologies

Other

Historical fiction

Novels

Short stories

  • "Captain Leopard" (1996)

Poetry

Nonfiction

Biography

History

Science

Other

Edited

Gedenkschriften

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