In like fashion, he reimagined space opera and planetary romance in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series, and the prehistoric precursor civilizations characteristic of much heroic fantasy in his Pusadian series. When he was not debunking literary conventions he was often explaining them. For example, in the Harold Shea stories co-written with his longtime friend Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956), the magical premises of some bodies of myths and legends were accepted but examined and elucidated in terms of their own systems of inherent logic. The imaginative civilizations in The Compleat Enchanter, for example, are built upon a cultural and technological reality based on scientific formulas. Characters may be transported to these different worlds, but the magic contained within those worlds is only feasible to the extent that it coincides with the technology of the day (e.g., the combustion engine). De Camp's explanatory tendency also carried over into his non-fictional writings, including advice to science fiction writers on handling the different states of languages in future worlds.
In like fashion he reimagined space opera and planetary romance in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series and the prehistoric precursor civilizations characteristic of much heroic fantasy in his Pusadian series When he was not debunking literary conventions he was often explaining them For example in the Harold Shea stories co-written with his longtime friend Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) the magical premises of some bodies of myths and legends were accepted but examined and elucidated in terms of their own systems of inherent logic The imaginative civilizations in The Compleat Enchanter for example are built upon a cultural and technological reality based on scientific formulas Characters may be transported to these different worlds but the magic contained within those worlds is only feasible to the extent that it coincides with the technology of the day (eg the combustion engine) De Camp's explanatory tendency also carried over into his non-fictional writings including advice to science fiction writers on handling the different states of languages in future worlds