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Aristotle and the Gun

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391:(1958), which serves as an interesting counterpoint to the present story. The development is indeed to some degree foreshadowed in the present story itself, with its meticulously researched depiction of the Classical Greek and Hellenistic milieu for which de Camp clearly had strong interest and empathy and also when seen through the eyes of its own native-born denizens and without a time traveler in attendance. De Camp would write no more science fiction until 1977. 312:
regard, turns out to have come down strongly against the notion in his writings. The result is a backward present of petty states, roughly at the level of late medieval principalities in our own history, considerably behind Weaver's original timeline in technology. His own United States is not even a dream, with its physical confines being controlled by various
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The lonely and misanthropic scientist Sherman Weaver has a central role in a secret US government project to build a time machine. The project succeeds, and a prototype device is constructed. However, before it can be tested, the government, alarmed at Weaver's report that small changes in history
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Weaver finds himself in a world very different from the one he left but not in the way he hoped. Aristotle, convinced that the tedious accumulation of experimental knowledge is beneath the dignity of civilized philosophers and that it is a waste of time attempting to catch up to "India" in that
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Believing that the influential ancient philosopher's lack of interest in experiment retarded scientific progress through much of subsequent history, Weaver aims to nudge the savant in what he considers the proper direction. His intention is to create a different 20th century dominated by
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against whom Philip is preparing to go to war. Ultimately forced to defend himself with a handgun he has brought, Weaver is on the point of being executed for espionage and murder, but he is snapped back into the present, as the effects of his time projection wear off.
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might have profound consequences and completely change the present-day world, decides to abort the project. Weaver is ordered to dismantle the machine, but rather than obey, he takes matters into his own hands by using the machine to project himself back to the era of
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For de Camp himself, however, its publication marked the beginning of a lengthy departure from the science fiction field, and pointed the way to the historical novels of the ancient world he would write during the next ten years, beginning with
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called the story "a fine specimen of the for-want-of-a-nail story: a small change in the past producing enormous ramifications as the centuries roll by," with "things so easy as the thought they would be ... a common theme in de Camp's work."
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The narrative of the story is set forth by Weaver in a lengthy letter to an acquaintance curious as to his remarkable background in which he concludes that he would have done better to leave well enough alone.
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but having long since thrown off any subjection to it. Enslaved in one such state, Weaver is delivered from endless drudgery only after many years, when his scholarly talents are finally recognized.
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rated the piece one of de Camp's "best stories", and placed it among those "of particular note" among de Camp's "many memorable short stories."
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Green, Roland. "de Camp, L. Sprague. Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories." In
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for February, 1958, and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection
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Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
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Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
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Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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super-science, hundreds of years in advance of ours.
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Index

Short story
L. Sprague de Camp

Frank Kelly Freas
Science fiction
Astounding Science-Fiction
Magazine
1958
time travel
alternate history
science fiction
L. Sprague de Camp
Astounding Science-Fiction
A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales
Doubleday
Curtis Books
Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories
Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
NESFA Press
Alpha Three
Ballantine Books
Space Mail, Volume II
Fawcett Crest
Analog: Writers' Choice
Davis Publications
Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds
Signet Books
The Legend Book of Science Fiction
Legend
Modern Classics of Science Fiction

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