About the book: 2002 / L. Sprague de Camp - creator English-language ironic fantasy, teacher of such authors as Robert Asprin and Terry Pratchett. Before the reader are his new works. The adventures of Harold Shea and his colleague Reed Chalmers continue. They will meet Prince Igor in Ancient Rus', flee from the Cumans in the world of the Arabian Nights, search for the kidnapped daughter of Professor Shi on Barsoom, invented by Edgar Burroughs, and then move to the reality of Shakespeare's The Tempest, inhabited by goblins and others magical creatures. Published in Russian for the first time.