The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass
- by Frederik Pohl
- Short Story
- Science Fiction, Comedy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl , Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.
This cautionary tale about Snodgras—time traveler who brought modern-day healthcare back to the Roman Empire—originally appeared as an essay in the editorial pages of Pohl’s Galaxy[/em] along with a nod to L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, but it’s since made its way into more than one story compilation.
—Michael Main
Snodgrass decided to make the Roman world healthy and to keep its people alive through 20th century medicine.
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): about the time of the birth of Christ
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: went back some two thousand years
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Fix Someone Else’s Timeline Wreckage!: Those 900 trillion future beings must fix Snodgrass’s screw-up.
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- “The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl , Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.
Previous Works
inspired by Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprage de Camp (1939)