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A Hero of the Empire

Roma Eterna

Robert Silverberg

Sidewise award nominated novelette. It originally appreared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1999. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000), edited by Gardner Dozois, and One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003), edited by Gordon Van Gelder.

Roma Eterna

Roma Eterna

Robert Silverberg

No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward through the ages -- into a new era of scientific advancement and astounding technologies -- countless upstarts and enemies arise, only to be ground into the dust beneath the merciless Roman bootheels. But one people who suffer and endure throughout the many centuries of oppressive rule dream of the glorious day that is coming -- when the heavens themselves will be opened to them... and the ships they are preparing in secret will carry them on their "Great Exodus" to the stars.

Tales from the Venia Woods

Roma Eterna

Robert Silverberg

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1989. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990) and Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), both edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010), edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates.