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Lest Darkness Fall
Author: | L. Sprague de Camp |
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Pyramid Books, 1963 Galaxy Science Fiction, 1955 Henry Holt and Company, 1941 |
Series: | Galaxy Science Fiction: Book 24 |
1. Sinister Barrier |
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Book Type: | Novel |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Alternate History (SF) Time Travel Light/Humorous SF |
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Synopsis
Martin Padway, 20th-century archaeologist, becomes a reluctant one-way time-traveller, landing in Rome on the verge of the Dark Ages. With no way home, he sets out to make the world he's in a better place.
In short order, Padway "invents" and introduces such things as Printing and newspapers, Arabic numerals, Double entry bookkeeping, Copernican astronomy, and, most important -- Distilling. And the world of decaying Rome will never be the same!
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