Lest Darkness Fall and Timeless Tales Told in Tribute
Language: English
Published by Phoenix Pick, 2026
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- Title
- Lest Darkness Fall and Timeless Tales Told in Tribute
- Author
- L Sprague De Camp, Harry Turtledove, S M Stirling
- Publisher
- Phoenix Pick
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 164973204X
- ISBN 13
- 9781649732040
- Item weight
- 458 grams
Rome, 1938. The archaeologist Martin Padway is standing near the Pantheon when lightning cracks — and drops him into the Rome of 535, a city sliding toward the Dark Ages.
Padway decides to stop it. He starts small: a copper still, a loan from a Syrian banker whose clerks he wins over by teaching them Arabic numerals and double-entry bookkeeping. Then a printing press. A newspaper. A semaphore telegraph strung across Italy. Then a deposed Gothic king who makes him quaestor — and Belisarius, the finest general in Byzantium, marching to take Rome back.
Thematically close to Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, but built on real scholarship. De Camp was a serious student of history and the author of several popular works on the subject. He knew how sixth-century Rome actually worked, down to its banking, and he joined that knowledge to an extraordinary imagination to produce one of the finest time-travel novels ever written.
The book’s influence shows in the writers who answered it. The original tribute volume reprinted three stories — by Frederik Pohl, David Drake, and S. M. Stirling — written over forty-three years. This edition adds two brand-new stories by Harry Turtledove and David Weber, plus an afterword by Alexei and Cory Panshin, adapted from their Hugo-winning The World Beyond the Hill.
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