Summary: <br> <div class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8px;">A classic time-travel story of modern man’s confrontation with the ancient world. Martin “Mouse” Padway plays a giant game of Civ with the real world. Can he prevent the fall of Rome?</div> <br> <div class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8px;"> <br> <br class="" style=""> </div> <br> <div class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12.8px;"> <br> <div class="" style=""><a href="http://www.nobleknight.com/" class="" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(84, 1, 21);">www.nobleknight.com</a></div> <br> <div class="" style=""> <br> <br class="" style=""> </div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Lyon Sprague de Camp</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">November 27, 1907 - November 6, 2000 (age 92)</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Wiki “In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction during the genre's heyday in the 1930s and 1940s.”</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">born in New York City</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">sent to boarding school “to cure him of intellectual arrogance and lack of discipline;” he was bullied and developed a detached analytical style</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">he was an aeronautical engineer, did undergraduate study at California Institute of Technology; earned B of Sci at Caltech; earned Masters in Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1933</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">his first job took him to Scranton, PA!!</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">during WW2 was a researcher at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where he worked with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">founding member of Swordsmen and Sorcerers Guild of America (SAGA), in the 60’s, led by Lin Carter</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"> <br> <br class="" style=""> </div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><i class="" style="">Lest Darkness Fall</i></div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">one of the earliest and most influential alternate history novels</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">first published as short story in <i class="" style="">Unknown</i>, December 1939</div> <br> <div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">published as novel by Henry Hol</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>
