Tag Archives: time travel

A Long Time Until Now: book review

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Oleg Volk

I just finished reading Mike’s newest book, A Long Time Until now.  It’s a typical MZW in terms of pacing: a slow first chapter followed by rapidly accelerating pace of story-telling all the way up to the last sentence. It’s … Continue reading →

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Time travel considerations.

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Oleg Volk

Sprague DeCamp’s Lest Darkness Fall was first published in 1939. It was one of the first coherent time travel stories and quite well written. The author created a humorous,and informative tale of a history professor who ends up in 6th … Continue reading →

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What’s in his nassssty pocketsssesss?

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Oleg Volk

In Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall (now available freely on-line!), a historian visiting Rome gets shunted from 1939 to 536AD. Besides half-way decent knowledge of Latin, he has what was in his pockets at the time of the transfer: … Continue reading →

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