L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. His writing career spanned over fifty years. He wrote novels and works of nonfiction.
The Carnelian Cube
Arthur Cleveland Finch was a practical man, the staunchest of citizens... but when he slept with the ancient cube of red stone under his pillow, he woke to a world where practicality seemed to be against the law. Finch found himself a poet in a country where poets were highly valued... and where a man could be arrested for reciting a poem in public!
Fleeing for his life, the magic of the carnelian cube carried him from world to world... and each world proved more fantastic and more dangerous that the last!
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