The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens

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are the main spacefaring peoples. The tales take place in the period from the mid-21st-century to the mid-twenty-second. Individual stories are set on spaceships traveling between planets and individual planets such as Earth, Krishna, Ganesha and Osiris (it being assumed that Terrans will have

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wrote that "De Camp's style is adroit and witty as he develops science-fiction take-offs on themes like sea piracy, head hunters, the wild west, and jousting knight-hood," and noted that "he tales are spiced with glamorous other worldly women." He also rated it "robably the most entertaining

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assessed it as a "cream-puff-light book of space opera ... ine stuff for bedtime, but I do feel that the stories were written with the left hind paw of an immensely brilliant fellow who just wasn't trying hard. Perhaps we should call it 'relentlessly light reading!'"

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collection of 'tomorrow tales' by an individual author" published in 1953, whose "yarns kept the reader laughing over space pioneering in the 22d century and a marvelous pair of interstellar swindlers named Koshay and Borel."

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and nearby stellar systems inhabited by alien races is common, and an Interplanetary Council regulates relations between the various civilizations. Terrans and the reptilian natives of the planet

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felt "the stories of the Viagens Interplanetarias have usually struck us as pretty routine work unworthy of L. Sprague de Camp, but devotees of the series will welcome the collected volume."

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The date headings to the individual stories are as listed in the collection's table of contents and at the beginning of each story.

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imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. It has also been translated into

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noted that in postulating the rise of Brazil as a world power, de Camp "develops an interesting and not too improbable theme."

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has become the paramount great power, with Terran space travel monopolized by a Brazilian-dominated agency called the

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Critical response to the book was mixed. The most extensive examination of the book came from

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Features of the postulated future include an Earth governed by a World Federation in which

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stated that "or fantasy, irony, and imagination these stories are remarkable." The

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carried their penchant for naming planets after gods to other star systems).

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Science fiction short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp

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The book is a collection of most of de Camp's early "

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