Description: From the Hugo and Nebula-award winning author--hailed by Roger Zelazny as "one of the greatest storytellers of the century"--a powerful, heady epic of alternate history that imagines a world in which the Roman Empire survived and flourished into the 21st century Roma Eterna is master science fiction author Robert Silverberg's crowning achievement in a career that has spanned six decades. A sweeping saga rich in history and imagination, it brings to life an Imperial Rome that never fell, resulting in a global civilization in which the cruelty, justice, art, education, terrors, and conquests of history's greatest empire still hold sway. Beginning in A.U.C. (ab urbe condita--"from the founding of the city") 1203 (A.D. 450), his narrative sweeps forward in time more than 1,500 years to witness Rome in all its eternal glory. Silverberg's magnificently imagined history moves from the reign of Maximilianus the Great to the conquest of the Mayans in Mexico to the first voyage of circumnavigation, and, ultimately, to the "Great Exodus" as an intrepid band of Hebrews attempts to escape the earthly oppression of Roman rule and journey to a new Eden on a distant planet.

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