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There was no harder-boiled materialist than I; I rejected Marxism as too mystical and not materialistic enough. - L. Sprague de Camp
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About L. Sprague de Camp
(November 27, 1907 – November 6, 2000) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Pen Names:
J. Wellington Wells
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Lymen R. Lyon
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J. Wellington
Birth Name:
Lyon Sprague de Camp
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L. Sprague De Camp
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You cannot expect men to be rational about national enmities," said Dikaiarchos. "As everyone knows, people like to have friends, but they also like to have enemies. A hereditary foe is a useful thing to have. It gives you somebody to feel superior to; it provides a handy target for all the furies and hatreds which you have boiling around inside you but which you dare not direct at those nearer you.
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