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.”
DEBUT
“The Apotheosis of Martin Padway,” in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute for L.
Sprague de Camp, edited by Harry Turtledove (Baen Books, May 2005).
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Apotheosis of Martin Padway,” in The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute for L. Sprague de Camp, edited by Harry Turtledove (Baen Books, May 2005).
“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.”
1 English variant