About “The Virgin of Zesh”
The Virgin of Zesh is a science fiction novella by L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It is the fourth book in the series and the third in a subseries set on the fictional planet Krishna. Originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories in February 1953, it was later included in the 1976 paperback collection The Virgin & the Wheels. In 1983, it was published with The Tower of Zanid in The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid. A stand-alone e-book edition was released in 2011 by Gollancz's SF Gateway. The novel has also been translated into German. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)