Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp

Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp

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Author	L. Sprague de Camp
Illustrator	Bob Eggleton
Cover artist	Bob Eggleton
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Published	2005 (NESFA Press)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	384 pp
ISBN	1-886778-47-7
OCLC	61287424

Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp is a 2005 collection of short stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp edited by Mark L. Olson and illustrated by Bob Eggleton, published in hardcover by NESFA Press.

The book contains what the editor regards as de Camp's best science fiction stories and essays concerning time travel. It is the first in a projected series of the author's works. It also contains an introduction by Harry Turtledove, often regarded as de Camp's literary heir.

Contents

• "Introduction" by Harry Turtledove
• "The Wheels of If"
• "Tiger in the Rain" (poem)
• "Balsamo’s Mirror"
• "Time" (poem)
• "Aristotle and the Gun"
• "Language for Time-Travelers" (essay)
• "Faunas" (poem)
• "The Gnarly Man"
• "Reward of Virtue" (poem)
• "A Gun for Dinosaur"
• "Nahr al Kalb" (poem)
• Lest Darkness Fall (novel)
• "Kaziranga" (poem)
• "The Isolinguals"