Series
Roma Eterna
Robert Silverberg · 1 novel · 2 novellas · 7 novelettes · 1 short story · 1989–2003
Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna imagines an alternate history in which the Roman Empire never fell and endures into the present day, tracing its long, uneven survival through a sequence of pivotal moments across two millennia. Rather than one continuous plot, the book is a fix-up of ten linked stories, most first published in Asimov's Science Fiction over a fourteen-year span, each set in a different era of this unbroken Rome. It reads as the chronicle of a civilization rather than a story following a single cast of characters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Roma Eterna at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s2
- 1990s5
- 2000s4
Shape
1 novel · 2 novellas · 7 novelettes · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:alternate historypolitical intriguealternate earthancient worldreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 11 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- With Caesar in the Underworlddarkest
- Roma Eternabrightest · calmest
- A Hero of the Empiremost intense