The Apotheosis of Martin Padway
- by S. M. Stirling
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Apotheosis of Martin Padway” by S. M. Stirling, in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute for L. Sprague de Camp, edited by Harry Turtledove (Baen Books, May 2005).
Some 50 years after Martin Padway was thrown back to Byzantine times, a group of holy men and scientists travel back to the supposed date when the Great Man ascended to godhood.
“It’s definitely a past with Martinus of Padua in it. There are no other lines within several hundred chronospace-years that show a scientific-industrial revolution this early. Quantum factors make it difficult”—fucking meaningless—“to say if it’s precisely the line that led to us.”
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- “The Apotheosis of Martin Padway” by S. M. Stirling, in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute for L. Sprague de Camp, edited by Harry Turtledove (Baen Books, May 2005).