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Lest Darkness Fall

by L. Sprague de Camp

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, in Unknown, December 1939.
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1 English variant
DERIVATIVE WORKS
  1. “The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl , Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.
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