 de Camp, L. Sprague. Lest Darkness Fall. Ballantine/Del Rey 1983 (cover art by Darrell K. Sweet). |  de Camp, L. Sprague. Lest Darkness Fall. Translated to the French as De peur que les ténèbres…, NEO 1983. |
De Camp, L. Sprague. Lest Darkness Fall
Divergence: 527 CE
Summary: Mysteriously transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a modern
man decides to start up a few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
Published: Ballantine 1949, 1974 (0345241398BUY), 1983 (0345310160BUY);
Pyramid 1963;
Easton 1988;
SFBC 1996.
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Revision of
"Lest Darkness Fall"
in Unknown, December 1939.
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Included in
Lest Darkness Fall & To Bring the Light (w/ David Drake),
Baen 1996 (0671877364BUY);
and
Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
(ed. Mark L. Olson), NESFA 2005 (1886778477BUY).
Original in: English.
Translation: Nederlands by Riet Neehus-Aalderink as
Een Fakkel voor het Keizerrijk, Gradivus 1978 (9063177712).
Translation: French by Christian Meistermann as
De peur que les ténèbres…, Marabout 1972,
NEO 1983 (2730401954), Les Belles Lettres 1999 (2251771298).
Translation: Italian by Gianni Atom as
L'abisso del passato, Ponzoni 1959.
Translation: Italian by Renato Prinzhofer as
Abisso del passato, Nord 1972 (8842903019), Mondadori 1999.
Translation: Polish by Radoslaw Januszewski as
Jankes w Rzymie, Alfa 1991 (8370014488).
Translation: Portuguese by Eurico Fonseca as
A Luz e as Trevas, Livros do Brasil 1987.
Translation: Spanish by Domingo Santos as
El tiempo no es tan simple, J.J. Fernández Ribes 1976
(8436508475).
Translation: Swedish by Christina Fagerström as
Om mörkret faller, Optima 1983 (9176480062).
Stirling, S.M. "The Apotheosis of Martin Padway"
Summary: Time travelers go back to c. 570 to see the Great Man who helped restore the
Western Roman Empire.
Published: In The Enchanter Completed
(ed. Harry Turtledove), Baen 2005 (0743499042BUY);
and
Ice, Iron and Gold, Night Shade 2007 (1597801151BUY).
