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Lest Darkness Fall & Timeless Tales Written in Tribute

by Frederik Pohl, David Drake, S.M. Stirling, L. Sprague de Camp, Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin, David Weber, Harry Turtledove

Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the favorite books of many of the masters in this genre, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish alternate-history as solid sub-genre of science fiction.An indication of the influence and longevity of the book is by the number of best-selling writers who have written stories in direct response to, or influenced by, Lest Darkness Fall. The original tribute volume (titled Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories, reprinted three such stories by Frederik Pohl, David Drake and S. M. Stirling written over a period of forty-three years—a testament to the timelessness of the book. The 2021 edition (Lest Darkness Fall and Timeless Tales Told in Tribute) includes two brand new stories by Harry Turtledove and David Weber.Similar, thematically, to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the book tells the tale of Martin Padway who, as he is walking around in modern Rome, is suddenly transported though time to 6th Century Rome. Once in ancient Rome, Padway (now Martinus Paduei Quastor) embarks on an ambitious project of single-handedly changing history. L. Sprague de Camp was a student of history (and the author of a number of popular works on the subject). In Lest Darkness Fall he combines his extensive knowledge of the workings of ancient Rome with his extraordinary imagination to create one of the best books of time travel ever written. This volume also includes an afterword by Alexei and Cory Panshin, adapted from their Hugo-winning book on science fiction, The World Beyond the Hill.

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Author Biography

L. Sprague de CampL. Sprague de Camp is a key figure in science fiction and best known for his highly influential book Lest Darkness Fall which not only impacted many future giants of the industry, it was also responsible for the establishment of alternate history as a solid subgenre. Alternate history has seen a huge increase in popularity in recent years with major media productions like The Man in the High Castle (Amazon's hit series based on the book by Philip K. Dick).His body of work is marked by interests in linguistics, ancient history, philosophy, and plausible scientific extrapolation. He wrote several books related to time travel and alternate history in which challenged conventional notions of how history is created by arbitrary acts, instead arguing about the importance of technological determination in shaping history.He explored these notions in detail in many of his books, and a number of his books on the subject, including Lest Darkness Fall, are considered seminal works of alternate history and time travel.While the term extraterrestrial was first used by H.G. Wells in connection with life beyond Earth, de Camp is credited with both using it as a noun to describe alien life as well as for creating the abbreviation E.T. in the first part of his two-part article, "Design for Life" published in Astounding Science Fiction.Many subsequent bestselling authors in science fiction and fantasy have cited de Camp's work as having a major influence on them, including David Weber, David Drake and Frederik Pohl.L. Sprague de Camp was a guest of honor at the 1966 World science fiction convention, was named a Gandalf Master of Fantasy at the 1976 convention (after J.R.R. Tolkien and Fritz Leiber) and a Grandmaster of science fiction by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) in 1979. He also accumulated a plethora of awards, including a Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 1996, citing 'seminal works in the field.'He was born in New York City in 1907 and married Catherine Adelaide Crook in 1939. They moved to Plano, Texas in 1989. Both he and Catherine died within months of each other in 2000. Their ashes share a columbarium niche together at Arlington National Cemetery. Frederick PohlFrederik Pohl is the author of the classic science fiction novel Gateway which was followed by later books that now comprise the Heechee collection. He is considered one of the premier science fiction writers of the twentieth century with several bestsellers to his name.Along with commercial success, his works also met with wide critical acclaim. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards throughout his career both for short stories as well as novels. He was made a Grandmaster by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) in 1993 and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1998. He also received the J. W. Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of California Riverside Library which houses the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy.Frederik Pohl was born in New York City in 1919 and died in Palatine, Illinois in 2013. David DrakeDavid Drake is a Vietnam war veteran who used his military experience to create an extremely successful series of military science fiction series called the Hammer's Slammer stores. The setting is called the Slammers universe or the Hammerverse. The series (and the universe) is named after the first book in the series, a collection of short stories titled Hammer's Slammers (with the pivotal character of Colonel Alois Hammer).David utilizes both is own military experience as well as inspirations drawn from historical or mythological stories to create his stories. Being one of the first to write a popular military science fiction series, David Drake is now considered a major figure in the genre and helped establish many of the norms future writers have followed.David was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1945.S.M. StirlingS.M. Stirling is an award-winning Canadian-American science fiction author specializing in alternate history and time travel books. He is well known in the subgenres for his Draka and Nantucket series.Many of his books are conflict driven, military adventures. He also uses his works to explore value systems and cultural and historical influences.Stirling was bon in Metz, France in 1963 and currently lives in New Mexico with his wife Jan.Alexei PanshinAlexei Panshin is a science fiction writer as well as a science fiction historian and critic. His novel, Rite of Passage won a Nebula award and this study of science fiction, The World Beyond the Hill won a Hugo Award.Alexei was born in 1940 and currently lives with his wife Cory (who co-authored with him on several of his works, including The World Beyond the Hill) in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.Harry Turtledove>p>Dubbed as "The Master of Alternate History" by Publishers Weekly, Harry Turtledove has written a number of classic bestsellers in the subgenre, including How Few Remain, The Guns of the South and The Man with the Iron Heart. He uses his study of history (with a Ph.D in Byzantine history) to create alternate worlds in intricate detail; crafting enthralling adventures that have garnered him high critical praise as well as making him one of the most successful bestselling authors in alternate history. Turtledove has won, or been nominated, for nearly every major award in science fiction (multiple times, for many) including the Hugo, Nebula, Sidewise (alternate history), Homer (short stories), The John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction and the Prometheus Award. Harry Turtledove is married to novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters, Alison, Rachel and Rebecca. David WeberDavid Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series and has had a number of New York bestsellers. His books are also a regular selection for the Science Fiction Book Club.

Review

"Lest Darkness Falls is one of the earliest, best, and most influential time travel tales in classic SF"—Alan Brown, TOR.com
"Next to Wells's Time Machine, this could be the best time-travel novel ever written."—P. Schuyler Miller, science fiction critic
"I revisit this title every couple of years. More than 75 years after the fact, still one of the greatest time travel/fish out of water stories ever written. de Camp brings to life the culturally, religiously, and linguistically cosmopolitan and complex Rome of the 6th century in a manner that is vivid without being sensationalist and detailed without becoming pedantic. Remarkably (again after three-quarters of a century) the way it treats the paradoxes of time travel is still one of the most bulletproof I've encountered."—Joe Black on Goodreads

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Review Text

Lest Darkness Fall , originally published as a short story in Unknown in 1939, is one of the true classics of time travel and alternate history literature. Taking his cue from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), L. Sprague de Camp sends his protagonist, Martin Padway, a Ph.D. candidate, back to Rome in the sixth century. This was a period of upheaval for Italy. The western Roman Empire had finally succumbed to the Ostrogoths at the end of the fifth century and the Eastern Emperor, Justinian (527-565), was preparing to send his generals, first Belisarius and then Narsus, into Italia. Aware that war was about to ravage the entire Italian peninsula, Padway sets about instituting technological and ideological change in the hopes of preventing too much turmoil and securing a position of wealth and safety for himself. In this, his first novel, De Camp does a fantastic job researching the Byzantine Empire. As Byzantine scholar Harry Turtledove has pointed out, "except for the introduction of Martin Padway, de Camp was making up next to nothing."* However, that introduction of Padway is the catalyst which sets the entire novel into motion. Like Twain's Hank Morgan, Martin Padway has extensive knowledge from the twentieth century and is able to apply it as needed. Unlike Morgan, Padway's knowledge frequently fails him and he has to determine the best way to work around his shortcomings. Padway's influence is also less militaristic than one might expect given the situation in which he finds himself. One of his major achievements is the introduction of double entry bookkeeping. Padway also attempts to begin a sort of Renaissance by introducing anachronistic scientific theory, such as the laws of gravity. Just as Twain used humor, satire, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , de Camp also uses humor, although of an even more subtle variety. Rarely the type to make the reader laugh out loud, de Camp sprinkles his world with quiet in-jokes which will bring a smile to the knowledgable reader's lips. Perhaps the greatest divergence between Twain's work and de Camp's, and one of the reasons de Camp's novel is considered a classic in the field, is that in the end, Martin Padway is able to effect change in the world in which he finds himself. There is no Merlin to put him to sleep for a thousand years, nor a Church to set about undoing all the modernization he has done. Furthermore, while both Padway and Morgan managed to elevate themselves in the social hierarchy, Morgan's position was entirely at the whim of King Arthur, while Padway managed to work himself more firmly into the fiber of the society. Lest Darkness Fall firmly belongs entrenched in the classics of science fiction. With this novel, de Camp took the ideas of time travel and alternate history which had been used in science fiction since the nineteenth century and fused them in a logical marriage, showing how time travel could change the outcome of events in our own world. He also brought historical realism to science fiction by carefully researching a period of history which is not particularly well covered in most basic history classes.

Review Quote

"Next to Wells's Time Machine , this could be the best time-travel novel ever written."-- P. Schuyler Miller, science fiction critic

Excerpt from Book

EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER ONE Whenever and however all this was, that gesture assured Padway that he was still in Italy. Padway asked in Italian: "Could you tell me where I could find a policeman?" The man stopped his sales talk, shrugged, and replied, " Non compr'' endo. " "Hey!" said Padway. The man paused. With great concentration Padway translated his request into what he hoped was Vulgar Latin. The man thought, and said he didn''t know. Padway started to turn elsewhere. But the seller of beads called to another hawker: " Marco! The gentleman wants to find a police agent." "The gentleman is brave. He is also crazy," replied Marco. The bead-seller laughed. So did several people. Padway grinned a little; the people were human if not very helpful, He said: "Please, I--really-- want--to--know." The second hawker, who had a tray full of brass knick-knacks tied around his neck, shrugged. He rattled off a paragraph that Padway could not follow. Padway slowly asked the bead-seller: "What did he say?" "He said he didn''t know," replied the bead-seller. "I don''t know either." Padway started to walk off. The bead-seller called after him: "Mister." "Yes?" "Did you mean an agent of the municipal prefect?" "Yes." "Marco, where can the gentleman find an agent of the municipal prefect?" "I don''t know," said Marco. The bead-seller shrugged. "Sorry, I don''t know either." If this were twentieth-century Rome, there would be no difficulty about finding a cop. And not even Benny the Moose could make a whole city change its language. So he must be in (a) a movie set, (b) ancient Rome (the Tancredi hypothesis), or (c) a figment of his imagination. He started walking. Talking was too much of a strain. It was not long before any lingering hopes about a movie set were dashed by the discovery that this alleged ancient city stretched for miles in all directions, and that its street plan was quite different from that of modern Rome. Padway found his little pocket map nearly useless. The signs on the shops were in intelligible classical Latin. The spelling had remained as in Caesar''s time, if the pronunciation had not. The streets were narrow, and for the most part not very crowded. The town had a drowsy, shabby-genteel, rundown personality, like that of Philadelphia. L. Sprague de Camp At one relatively busy intersection Padway watched a man on a horse direct traffic. He would hold up a hand to stop an oxcart, and beckon a sedan chair across. The man wore a gaudily striped shirt and leather trousers. He looked like a central or northern European rather than an Italian. Padway leaned against a wall, listening. A man would say a sentence just too fast for him to catch. It was like having your hook nibbled but never taken. By terrific concentration, Padway forced himself to think in Latin. He mixed his cases and numbers, but as long as he confined himself to simple sentences he did not have too much trouble with vocabulary. A couple of small boys were watching him. When he looked at them they giggled and raced off. It reminded Padway of those United States Government projects for the restoration of Colonial towns, like Williamsburg. But this looked like the real thing. No restoration included all the dirt and disease, the insults and altercations, that Padway had seen and heard in an hour''s walk. Only two hypotheses remained: delirium and time-slip. Delirium now seemed the less probable. He would act on the assumption that things were in fact what they seemed. He couldn''t stand there indefinitely. He''d have to ask questions and get himself oriented. The idea gave him gooseflesh. He had a phobia about accosting strangers. Twice he opened his mouth, but his glottis closed up tight with stage fright. Come on, Padway, get a grip on yourself. "I beg your pardon, but could you tell me the date?" The man addressed, a mild-looking person with a loaf of bread under his arm, stopped and looked blank. "Qui'' e''? What is it?" "I said, could you tell me the date?" The man frowned. Was he going to be nasty? But all he said was, "Non compr'' endo." Padway tried again, speaking very slowly. The man repeated that he did not understand. Padway fumbled for his date-book and pencil. He wrote his request on a page of the date-book, and held the thing up. The man peered at it, moving his lips. His face cleared. "Oh, you want to know the date?" said he. "Sic, the date." The man rattled a long sentence at him. It might as well have been in Trabresh. Padway waved his hands despairingly, crying, "Lento!" The man backed up and started over. "I said I understood you, and I thought it was October 9th, but I wasn''t sure because I couldn''t remember Lest Darkness Fall whether my mother''s wedding anniversary came three days ago or four." "What year?" "What year?" "Sic, what year?" "Twelve eighty-eight Anno Urbis Conditae." It was Padway''s turn to be puzzled."Please, what is that in the Christian era?" "You mean, how many years since the birth of Christ?" "Hoc ille--that''s right." "Well, now--I don''t know; five hundred and something. Better ask a priest, stranger." "I will," said Padway. "Thank you." "It''s nothing," said the man, and went about his business. Padway''s knees were weak, though the man hadn''t bitten him, and had answered his question in a civil enough manner. But it sounded as though Padway, who was a peaceable man, had not picked a very peaceable period. What was he to do? Well, what would any sensible man do under the circumstances? He''d have to find a place to sleep and a method of making a living. He was a little startled when he realized how quickly he had accepted the Tancredi theory as a working hypothesis. He strolled up an alley to be out of sight and began going through his pockets. The roll of Italian bank notes would be about as useful as a broken five-cent mousetrap. No, even less; you might be able to fix a mousetrap. A book of American Express traveler''s checks, a Roman street-car transfer, an Illinois driver''s license, a leather case full of keys--all ditto. His pen, pencil, and lighter would be useful as long as ink, leads, and lighter fuel held out. His pocketknife and his watch would undoubtedly fetch good prices, but he wanted to hang onto them as long as he could. He counted the fistful of small change. There were just twenty coins, beginning with four ten-lire silver cartwheels. They added up to forty-nine lire, eight centesimi, or about five dollars. The silver and bronze should be exchangeable. As for the nickel fifty-centesimo and twenty-centesimo pieces, he''d have to see. He started walking again. He stopped before an establishment that advertised itself as that of S. Dentatus, goldsmith and money changer. He took a deep breath and went in.

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Not only is this an iconic book in science fiction, and largely responsible for the creation of alternate history as a sub-genre, the new edition will include two newly commissioned stories by two major science fiction authors; Harry Turtledove and David Weber. Stories by authors included in the previous edition (David Drake, Frederik Pohl and S.M Stirling), as well as the afterword by Alexei and Cory Panshin will also be included.

Details ISBN1647100127 Author Harry Turtledove Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1647100127 ISBN-13 9781647100124 Publication Date 2021-02-16 Format Hardcover Pages 328 Publisher CAEZIK SF & Fantasy Imprint CAEZIK SF & Fantasy Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2021-02-16

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  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 9781647100124
  • Author: Frederik Pohl, David Drake, S.M. Stirling, L. Sprague de Camp
  • Book Title: Lest Darkness Fall & Timeless Tales Written in Tribute
  • ISBN: 9781647100124

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