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"The Merman" is a science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, based on the concept of human biological engineering. It was first published in the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction f
cover of Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1938, illustrating The Merman
The Best of L. Sprague de Camp is a collection of writings by American science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardback by Nelson Doubleday in February 1978 and in pa
The Merman
…and Other Science Fiction (Shasta, 1949); it later appeared in the anthology Science Fiction of the Thirties (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975) and the collection The Best of L. Sprague de Camp (Doubleday, 1978). The story has been translated into German Vernon Brock, an assistant aquarist at the New York City Aquarium, has, in addition to his…
Cover of the first edition.