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L. Sprague de Camp coined the noun extraterrestrial and the abbreviation E.T. in May 1939. This linguistic innovation emerged from his two-part article Design for Life published in Astounding Science Fiction.
L. Sprague de Camp was born Lyon Sprague de Camp on the 27th of November 1907 in New York City. He was the son of a real estate and lumber businessman and a mother whose family included a Civil War veteran and pioneering Volapükist.
L. Sprague de Camp earned a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1930. He followed this with a Master of Science in Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1933.
During World War II, L. Sprague de Camp served as a researcher at the Philadelphia Naval Yard alongside fellow writers Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy as a reserve officer.
Rogue Queen was the most influential Viagens novel by L. Sprague de Camp and one of the earliest science fiction novels to deal with sexual themes. This tale of a hive society undermined by interstellar contact was a non-Krishna work within the series.