Lyon Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp was an occultist-science fiction writer who worked with Jack Parsons (follower of Aleister Crowley's Thelema religion, head of the OTO Agape Lodge in California), L. Ron Hubbard, (Church of Scientology.), Robert Howard, Fletcher Pratt, Lin Carter,.. He coined the term E.T. in 1939. He was educated at Trinity School like James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Jim Carroll (The Basketball Diaries), David Ebersman (Facebook), William Lauder, Craig Kallman (Atlantic Records), Eric Trump, Oliver Stone,... |
He was also educated at Caltech in Pasadena California with rocket scientist John Drury Clark.
In 1940 he joined the Mañana Literary Society of Robert Heinlein, who invited science fiction writers to his home in Laurel Canyon, with members Jack Parsons, Anthony Boucher/William White (mentor of Philip K Dick, San Francisco Chronicle now owned by Hearst), Ron Hubbard, Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep, Star Wars Episode II: The Empire Strikes Back), her husband Edmond Hamilton (Superman, Batman), Catherine Lucelle Moore, her husband Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales), Jack Williamson, Fritz Lang (Metropolis about the Whore of Babylon).
During the WW2 ritual, de Camp, Heinlein and Isaac Asimov worked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Project Manhattan).
Parsons was a friend of Robert Cornog (Manhattan Project with Qian Xuesen). In 1946 he and Ron Hubbard performed the Babalon Workings to summon Babalon.
He published in Fantastic Universe (stories of Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, PKD) and Astounding Science Fiction edited by Harry Bates (Weird Tales, Strange Tales, The Day the Earth Stood Still). The Day the Earth Stood Still was adapted into movies like the 2008 version with Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly and Jaden Smith.
He founded the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA) with Lin Carter and John Jakes and created the Gandalf Grand Master Awards at the World Science Fiction Convention, awarded to JRR Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Jack Vance (The Last Castle, Dying Earth, friend of Frank Herbert),...
He married Catherine Crook.
The LA Science Fiction Society (Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Leigh Brackett) gathered at Clifton's Cafetaria in LA. Bradbury worked at Epcot of Disney World.
In 1976 he worked for the Committee of Skeptical Inquiry with Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Daniel Cohen, Sidney Hook, Martin Gardner, James Randi,..
In 1982, the year Diana Spencer gave birth to Moonchild William V), Steven Spielberg made E.T. with Peter Coyote (Haight-Ashbury scene), Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas and Erika Eleniak about a Grey alien.
Arnold Schwarzenegger played Conan the Barbarian.
Homer Sprague was a member of Scroll and Key.
Works
1937 Inventions and Their Management
1939 Lest darkness Falls
1941 The Incomplete Enchanter with Fletcher Pratt
1953 The Virgin of Zesh
1954 Lost Continents: the Atlantis Theme in History, Science and Literature
1955 Tales of Conan Robert Howard
1958 An Elephant for Aristotle
1960 The Bronze God of Rhodes
1968 The Goblin Tower
1961 The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
1963 The Ancient Engineers
1965 The Arrows of Hercules
1969 Castle of Terror (castle programming)
1975 Lovecraft: a Biography (works of HP Lovecraft are used in rituals of the OTO)
1983 Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E Howard
born 11/27/1907.
died 11/6/2000.