 173, December 1991, Baird Searles in "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", March 1992, Darrell Schweitzer in "Aboriginal Science Fiction", Fall 1992, and Steven Sawicki in "Quantum", Summer/Fall 1992.The main plot device of bickering male and female protagonists not destined for a happy ending together is featured in several late de Camp novels, notably "The Prisoner of Zhamanak" (1982), "The Bones of Zora" (1983), and "The Incorporated Knight" (1987).Thorolf's method of dragon hunting echoes that employed in "King Fusinian the Fox and the Teeth of Grimnor," an inset tale in de Camp's "The Goblin Tower" (1968).