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''The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens'' is a 1953 collection of stories by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, the fifth book in his ''Viagens Interplanetarias'' series. It was first published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers, and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971 with a cover by illustrator Bob Pepper. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.〔(Orion Publishing Group's L. Sprague de Camp webpage )〕〔(Amazon.com entry for e-book edition )〕 It has also been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian.〔 The pieces were originally published between 1949 and 1951 in the magazines ''Astounding Science-Fiction'', ''Startling Stories'', ''Future Combined with Science Fiction'', and ''Thrilling Wonder Stories''. The book is a collection of most of de Camp's early "''Viagens Interplanetarias''" tales, all of which are set in a future in which interstellar travel between the Solar System 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 Osiris 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 carried their penchant for naming planets after gods to other star systems). Notable features of the postulated future include an Earth governed by a World Federation in which Brazil has become the paramount great power, with Terran space travel monopolized by a Brazilian-dominated agency called the ''Viagens Interplanetarias'' ("Interplanetary Tours" in Portuguese). Interstellar travel is limited to sub-light speeds, as the author eschews such common science fiction gimmicks as hyperdrives. ==Contents== The date headings to the individual stories are as listed in the collection's table of contents and at the beginning of each story. *"In Re Sprague" by Isaac Asimov (introduction) *"Author's Note" *A.D. 2054-2088: "The Inspector's Teeth" *A.D. 2104-2128: "Summer Wear" *A.D. 2114-2140: "Finished" *A.D. 2117: "The Galton Whistle" *A.D. 2120: "The Animal-Cracker Plot" *A.D. 2135-2148: "Git Along!" *A.D. 2137: "Perpetual Motion" *A.D. 2153: "The Continent Makers" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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