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Pohl certainly would have known this and it's irrelevant to the entry
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* As a TakeThat to ''Literature/LestDarknessFall'', Creator/FrederikPohl wrote the short short story "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass." Snodgrass gives the Romans modern medicine and agriculture...but not birth control. Oops. The exceedingly overpopulated alternate timeline he created decides to do something about it. For added fun, it explicitly mentions the de Camp story. Although clearly the author didn't know that real life Romans had a common method of population control (or maybe he did, but felt it would shock the readers). After the baby was born, if it was unwanted, they would leave it out to die in the woods or street. This was called exposure, and it was common enough to play a major role in Greco-Roman mythology and folk tales.
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* As a TakeThat to ''Literature/LestDarknessFall'', Creator/FrederikPohl wrote the short short story "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass." Snodgrass gives the Romans modern medicine and agriculture...but not birth control. Oops. The exceedingly overpopulated alternate timeline he created decides to do something about it. For added fun, it explicitly mentions the de Camp story. Although clearly the author didn't know that real life Romans had a common method of population control (or maybe he did, but felt it would shock the readers). After the baby was born, if it was unwanted, they would leave it out to die in the woods or street. This was called exposure, and it was common enough to play a major role in Greco-Roman mythology and folk tales.
