The Purple Pterodactyls: The Adventures of W. Wilson Newbury, Ensorcelled Financier (Ace Science Fiction)
by L. Sprague de Camp, Lyon Sprague de Camp (Foreword)
W. Wilson Newbury (Collections and Selections — 1979)
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"The Purple Pterodactyls: The Adventures of W. Wilson Newbury, Ensorcelled Financier"
I am as ordinary, commonplace a guy as you can find: middle-sized, middle-class, middle-aged; engineer by training, banker by circumstance; with a nice wife, nice kids, nice house, and nice car. But the damndest things happen to me.
A book of light-hearted short stories, in which Willy Newbury encounters jinns, zombies, easily angered gods and goddesses, ghosts, lucky charms and reincarnation. The title story is perhaps the funniest and definitely my favourite.
I am as ordinary, commonplace a guy as you can find: middle-sized, middle-class, middle-aged; engineer by training, banker by circumstance; with a nice wife, nice kids, nice house, and nice car. But the damndest things happen to me.
A book of light-hearted short stories, in which Willy Newbury encounters jinns, zombies, easily angered gods and goddesses, ghosts, lucky charms and reincarnation. The title story is perhaps the funniest and definitely my favourite.
A collection of stories involving banker W. Wilson Newbury who has some strange things happen to him. I'm a sucker for these kind of stories. Many of the tales are good, although I prefer a few others like Callahan's Crosstime Saloon and others. Nevertheless, recommended pulp collection.
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L. Sprague de Camp, winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, was fluent in several languages and traveled the world. He was chased by a hippopotamus in Uganda and sea lions in the Galapagos Islands. He saw tigers and rhinoceroses from elephantback in India, and he was bitten by a lizard in the jungles of Guatemala. His fascinating show more autobiography. Time and Chance, won the 1997 Hugo Award for best nonfiction. L. Sprague de Camp passed away in May 2000 show less
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- Der Herrscher Pterodactyls
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- The purple pterodactyls
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- 1979
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- W. Wilson Newbury
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- Petersen, Klaus-Dietrich
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- Englisch
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