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The official adaptation of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the seminal film
written by John Milius and Oliver Stone, starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones. In the novel by L. Sprague de
Camp and Lin Carter, the Cimmerian youth Conan witnesses the death
of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom, a priest of Set.
Enslaved, he is trained as a gladiator. Gaining his freedom he
allies with Subotai, a Hyrkanian archer, and a skilled swordswoman
thief named Valeria. Together they raid the Tower of the Serpent,
then Conan breaks away to seek the cult of Doom—and revenge on
the sorcerer who leads it.
Renowned science writer L. Sprague de Camp studies our global
"wrong-headedness" by examining our primitive past. Writing with
insight and humor, de Camp explores what makes us tick as the
products - and victims - of our prehuman past. He delves into the
legacy of evolution and shows how it has affected our historical
and social development. The survival traits of our ancestors, which
include foraging in bands, scrounging for food, and chasing other
scavengers away from the kill, are at the heart of our highly
competitive and combative nature - the tendency to view others as
adversaries. Are we "only monkeys shaved"? Can we overcome our
prehuman character? The Ape-Man Within answers these and other
fundamental questions facing our global society.
Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the
4th century BC, Th e Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros
of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult.
*** He is quickly drafted by Dionysios into Syracuse's war efforts
against Carthage, which sets him on a series of adventures
including a battle against Etruscan pirates and a kidnapping in
Carthage. *** L. Sprague's meticulous attention to historical
accuracy makes this a remarkable read which entertains as much as
it teaches us about fascinating events that shaped the course of
history. *** ---------- "Exciting and quite believable
adventures."-Classical World ---------- "Rousing piece of fi
ction...pace is rapid and unrelenting." -Th e Arizona Republic
---------- "Highly Recommended...intriguing novel."-Library Journal
The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as the memoirs of Chares of
Lindos. **** Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the
island of Rhodes. A pupil of Lysippos, Chares eventually built the
Colossus of Rhodes, now considered to be one of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World. **** These memoirs present the trials and
tribulations (some of them hilarious) of the sculptor as he
undertakes various projects and is forced into a number of
adventures, particularly in Ptolemaic Egypt. **** This is the
second historical novel that L. Sprague de Camp wrote (in order of
writing), drawing upon his extensive and detailed historical
knowledge of the period.
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Glory That Was (Hardcover)
L. Sprague De Camp; Introduction by Robert A. Heinlein
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R776
Discovery Miles 7 760
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Bessas of Zariaspa is a young officer in the Immortals regiment,
sworn to protect and obey his King at all costs. The King wishes
immortality and to that end tasks Bessas to find items that make an
immortality potion, including the blood of a dragon and the ear of
a king. *** The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate is a swashbuckling
historical novel with larger-than-life characters, set in a
detailed historical background that only a scholar such as de Camp
can create.
Rogue Queen is a ground-breaking novel by L. Sprague de Camp that
was one of the first science fiction books to deal with sexual
themes, paving the way for more daring works by future authors. ***
Part of the Viagens Interplanetarias series, the story takes place
on a planet circling the star Lalande 21185, also known as Ormazd.
When humans arrive on the planet they find a hive-like society with
a hyper-fertile queen being serviced by male drones. *** All the
other females of the species are infertile, or so it is believed.
However, when one of the worker females rebels she discovers that
the workers infertility is largely a result of the diet they
follow.
In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established
writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is
dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. Reginald Rivers --
RIVERS OF TIME -- take those who can afford it back to the
Cretaceous to hunt the biggest game that ever roamed the Earth: the
flesh-eating Giganotosaurus. But even there, the deadliest predator
of all remains Man! Roy THOMAS was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics
from 1972 to 1974, and is noted for his scripting of Conan the
Barbarian, The Avengers, X-Men and The Incredible Hulk. Between
1980-2000, Roy co-wrote and sold nine screenplays, of which two
(Conan the Destroyer and Fire and Ice, co-written with Gerry
Conway) were made into films.
Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who towers above the savage Hyborian world.
For the very first time in trade, this is the work that relaunched Conan in both the 1970s and 80s, back in print after more than a decade. Come live the adventure again.
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