cinepro Posted June 4, 2015 Posted June 4, 2015 I'm definitely getting this book: Clash of Eagles Ever hungry for land and gold, the Emperor has sent Praetor Gaius Marcellinus and the 33rd Roman Legion into the newly discovered lands of North America. Marcellinus and his men expect easy victory over the native inhabitants, but on the shores of a vast river the Legion clashes with a unique civilization armed with weapons and strategies no Roman has ever imagined. Forced to watch his vaunted force massacred by a surprisingly tenacious enemy, Marcellinus is spared by his captors and kept alive for his military knowledge. As he recovers and learns more about these proud people, he can’t help but be drawn into their society, forming an uneasy friendship with the denizens of the city-state of Cahokia. But threats—both Roman and Native—promise to assail his newfound kin, and Marcellinus will struggle to keep the peace while the rest of the continent surges toward certain conflict.
The Nehor Posted June 4, 2015 Posted June 4, 2015 How does the 1218 AD date enter into it? I assume it is an alternate history where Rome never fell.
Robert F. Smith Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 I assume it is an alternate history where Rome never fell.Yeh, in an alternate universe.
Robert F. Smith Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 I'm definitely getting this book:More from the internet:"This stunning work of alternate history imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has not fallen and the North American continent has just been discovered. In the year 1218 AD, transported by Norse longboats, a Roman legion crosses the great ocean, enters an endless wilderness, and faces a cataclysmic clash of worlds, cultures, and warriors." Alan Smale grew up in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in the Washington, D.C., area. By day he works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as a professional astronomer, studying black holes, neutron stars, and other bizarre celestial objects. However, too many family vacations at Hadrian’s Wall in his formative years plus a couple of degrees from Oxford took their toll, steering his writing toward alternate, secret, and generally twisted history. He has sold numerous short stories to magazines including Asimov’s and Realms of Fantasy, and he won the 2010 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History.
Buckeye Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 I bet those Romans were surprised when they saw the Cahokias had chariots just like them! Spoiler alert. After some initial success, the natives are decimated by the Roman's secret weapon: small pox - which is transmitted through the Roman swine population. If only the natives had not abandoned their mosaic law a few hundred years earlier, they could have been spared from this curse of curses! 1
Robert F. Smith Posted June 5, 2015 Posted June 5, 2015 ...................................................................................... ........................................................................................... If only the natives had not abandoned their mosaic law a few hundred years earlier, they could have been spared from this curse of curses!I didn't know that they had mosaics at Cahokia.
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