Form: Novelette
Year: 1999
Publication history:
- 1999 : Far Horizons (hc) , Avon, 482 pp., ISBN 9-780380-976300
- 2000 : Far Horizons (pb) , Orbit (UK), 691 pp., ISBN 1-85723-968-7
- 2000 : Horizons Lointains (hc) , J'ai lu (France), 644 pp., ISBN 2290304859 (in French)
- 2000 : Verre Horizons () , Luitingh-Sijthoff (Netherlands), 511 pp., ISBN 90-245-3496-8 (in Dutch "Het Legboek van de Draak")
- 2003 : Roma Eterna (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 384 pp., ISBN 0575073535
- 2003 : Roma Eterna (tpb) , Gollancz (UK), 384 pp., ISBN 0575073543
- 2003 : Roma Eterna (hc) , Eos, 396 pp., ISBN 0380978598
- 2004 : Roma Eterna (pb) , Eos, 464 pp., ISBN 0380814889
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Comments:
A story in the Roma Eterna series set in the year 2503 AUC (1750 to you and me). It concerns Tiberius Ulpius Draco, a character reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci, genius in many fields, from science to architecture to history. His particular passion is investigating the life of his ancestor, the famous caesar Trajan VII, known as Draco ("The Dragon"), but he is constantly interrupted by his own "emperor," the rash and flighty Demetrius, heir to the Roman throne, who has very big plans for his pet genius.
The main focus of this story is actually on Trajan, whose deeds, revealed in an ancient journal, present him to not be the man Tiberius thought him to be. A touching story of hero worship encountering warts, rather thoughtful and scholarly and containing no action scenes whatsoever.
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