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Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry

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The Dark Ages in Science Fiction

In 19 forty one a science fiction latched on to this idea of the dark age following the fall of rome, and dealt with it in different interesting ways. I can see the centical, centical fle which i read in eighth grade as definitely an influential book for me. In er a monastery, where they were the hand, copying and illuminating blueprint and and deliberately trying to take it forward in a way that nobody actually ever was y really,. not even botheas or some of the figures we point at as rose is a person who felt things were fading and tried to preserve them.

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