Lest Darkness Fall
- Eloi Gold Medal
- by L. Sprague de Camp
- Novel
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp, in Unknown, December 1939.
During a thunderstorm, archaeologist Martin Padway is thrown back to Rome of 535 A.D., whereupon he sets out to stop the coming Dark Ages.
Padway feared a mob of religious enthusiasts more than anything on earth, no doubt because their mental processes were so utterly alien to his own.
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- Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp, in Unknown, December 1939.
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- “The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl (June 1962).