The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid

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The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
first combined edition of The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
Author	L. Sprague de Camp
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Krishna
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ace Books
Publication date	1982
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	263 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0441864953

The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid is a 1982 collection of two science fiction novels by L. Sprague de Camp. Both works are part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and of its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. The collection was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1982. It was issued as the fourth volume of the standard edition of the Krishna novels, and its component parts were at the time of publication the fourth and fifth Krishna novels, chronologically. Afterwards, publication of The Prisoner of Zhamanak (1982) and The Bones of Zora (1983) made them the fifth and seventh Krishna novels, respectively.

As with all of de Camp's "Krishna" novels, the component parts of this collection have a "Z" in them, a practice he claimed to have devised to keep track of them. Short stories in the series do not follow the practice, nor do Viagens Interplanetarias works not set on Krishna.

[edit] Contents

• The Virgin of Zesh
• The Tower of Zanid

[edit] Plot and storyline

(See the articles on the component stories)

[edit] Setting

The planet Krishna is de Camp's premier creation in the Sword and Planet genre, representing both a tribute to the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and an attempt to "get it right", reconstructing the concept logically, without what he regarded as Burroughs' biological and technological absurdities.

Preceded by The Prisoner of Zhamanak	Krishna novels of L. Sprague de Camp The Virgin of Zesh	Succeeded by The Bones of Zora
Preceded by The Bones of Zora	Krishna novels of L. Sprague de Camp The Tower of Zanid	Succeeded by The Swords of Zinjaban