The Roman Empire has give wondering fabrication writer passel of fresh fish for alternate story story . There are dozens of stories in which the fall of Rome is delayed or prevented , and technology advance at an alarming pace .
For model , there ’s Jacek Inglot ’s Quietus in which a Roman Empire that has rejected Christianity has steamships by the eighth century and exit to warfare with a Christianized Japan . Or James White ’s The Silent Stars Go By , where the plan for theAeolipilesurvive the downfall of Rome and result in a spaceship launch in the fifteenth hundred .
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Another great good example is Frederick Pohl ’s The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass . Conceived as a reply to L. Sprague de Camp ’s classic Lest Darkness declivity , ( make , I consider , its third appearing in this column ) Pohl ’s story concerns a time - traveler who brings New medicine to the Roman Empire , thus creating a population blowup and force a 2d fourth dimension - traveler to lighten the overpopulation by going back and assassinate the titular Snodgrass .
Thomas Harlan ’s The Oath of Empire serial concerns an alternate Roman Empire protected by magic since the clip of Augustus . The world ’s thaumaturgy is primary in nature , and Rome — in accession to hold out past its original expiration date — create its own peculiar culture and habit based around that magic .
Perhaps the most depressing possibility is that a worldly concern with an extensive Roman Empire would end up as a world - cross dystopia with no literal advantages over our timeline . A meridian recent example of this idea is Sophia McDougall ’s Rominitas trilogy . In this serial , the Roman Empire hold almost the entire macrocosm and has still not abandoned slavery in the present day . The earth of Robert Reed ’s Hexagons is n’t explicitly dystopian — however , his innovative Roman Empire seems to be largely in decline and to has descend behind against the still relatively unsubdivided engineering of China and Japan .
A terminal , less cheerless , and much more exotic divergence comes from Scot MacKay ’s Orbis , which is set up in a world where the total humans fell to an alien intrusion effect 2000 years ago . The Romans , clever thinkers that they were , managed to steal some of the alien ship and turn tail off major planet . In the Christian Bible ’s present , a rebellion arises on Earth and humanness needs the assistance of the Romans who make an intergalactic empire .
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