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The Bronze God of Rhodes
Dust-jacket illustration of The Bronze God of Rhodes
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
Cover artistAlice Smith
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1960
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages406
OCLC01432125
Preceded byAn Elephant for Aristotle 
Followed byThe Golden Wind 

The Bronze God of Rhodes is a historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1960, and in paperback by Bantam Books in 1963.[1][2] A trade paperback edition was projected by The Donning Company for 1983, but never published.[3][4] The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in June 2013.[2][5][6] It is the second of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and fourth in internal chronology.

  1. ^ Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 29.
  2. ^ a b The Bronze God of Rhodes title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  3. ^ OCLC record for the unpublished Donning edition
  4. ^ "Stephen Fabian's cover art for the unpublished Donning edition". Archived from the original on 2014-08-22. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
  5. ^ OCLC record for the Phoenix Pick edition
  6. ^ Amazon.com record for the Phoenix Pick edition

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