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Roma Eterna

By Robert Silverberg

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| Paperback | 9780575073548

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The Roman Empire never fell. Driven by political ambition and internal dissent, thrown into turmoil by rebellion and civil war, it changed and adapted, but it never fell. The balance of power between Byzantium in the east and Rome in the west ebbed and flowed, but the Empire never fell. And it contiContinue

The Roman Empire never fell. Driven by political ambition and internal dissent, thrown into turmoil by rebellion and civil war, it changed and adapted, but it never fell. The balance of power between Byzantium in the east and Rome in the west ebbed and flowed, but the Empire never fell. And it continued to expand, taking in the New World, while still dominating the old. This ambitious and accomplished novel explores fifteen hundred years of alternate Roman history through the very human stories of some of those who lived through it: the soldier encountering the exoticism of the New World for the first time; the minor official exiled to Arabia for some misdemeanour whose meeting with a religious fanatic may have changed the course of history; the military hero seizing his destiny; the innocent British aristocrat witnessing the destruction of the royal family; the children who find the last emperor in a decaying wood are all vividly and memorably portrayed. Roma Eterna takes it's place among the great alternate histories.

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  • The Best Reviews: Robert Silverberg, Roma Eterna

    "Epic alternative historical novel" The Exodus failed to take the Jews from Egypt into the Promised Land. Thus Christianity never surfaces as the Jewish people remain enslaved in Egypt. Still Rome rises to defeat the neighboring Barbarians. The rest ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Roma Eterna

    One thing I love about science fiction is that, every time I think I have it pegged down, it'll spin around and kick me in the gut. Now, while this may not be an agreeable sensation in other aspects of life, in reading it is a pleasure unto itself. W ... (read full critics)

    infinityplus published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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