 de Camp, L. Sprague. Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories. Five Star 2002. |
De Camp, L. Sprague. "Aristotle and the Gun"
Divergence: 343 BCE
What if: Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science.
Summary: Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead overawes
and sours him on scientific research.
Published: In Astounding, February 1958;
Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales, Doubleday 1963;
Alpha 3
(ed. Robert Silverberg), Ballantine 1972 (034502883X);
Analog: Writer's Choice, vol. 1
(ed. Stanley Schmidt), Davis/Dial 1983 (0385279132);
Space Mail Vol. II
(eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph Olander),
Fawcett 1982 (0449244814);
Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds
(eds. Robert Adams, Martin H. Greenberg, and Pamela Crippen Adams), q.v.;
The Legend Book of Science Fiction
(ed. Gardner Dozois), Legend 1991 (0712650105, 0712648615),
v.t. Modern Classics of Science Fiction,
St. Martin's 1992 (0312072384BUY), St. Martin's 1993 (0312088477BUY);
Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History
(eds. Gardner Dozois and Stanley Schmidt), q.v.;
Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories, Five Star 2002 (0786243112BUY);
Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp
(ed. Mark L. Olson), NESFA 2005 (1886778477BUY);
and
Futures Past (eds. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois), q.v.
Original in: English.
Translation: German by Werner Fuchs as
"Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles",
in Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles, Heyne 1980.
