Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Clifford Simak... the masters of classical English-language fiction were generally distinguished by their ability to “play” with genres and create truly “explosive” mixtures from them. However, the versatility of the talent of L. Sprague de Camp, “released” into great literature by D. Campbell and which became popular already in the late 1940s, is stunning even in the context of such comparisons. "Traditional" science fiction and "alternative history", "time travel" and continuations of the "Conan the Barbarian" series, fantasy, ironic fantasy and works in which the traditions of science fiction and fantasy are intertwined in a bizarre and close way - the literary gift of Sprague de Camp , awarded the title of Grand Master in 1978, EVERYTHING was subject to his control... Here is one of the best cycles of the writer, the novels “Queen of Zamba”, “Search for Zeya”, “Tower of Zanid”.