The Roman Empire in 395 at the death of Theodosius (Map: Geuiwogbil at the English Wikipedia)
In 1984, a German academic, Alexander Demandt, published a book, Der Fall Roms, and he listed 210 reasons for the fall of Rome in the West.
Barbarians inside and outside the empire, Christianity, […]
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In my new story in Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic, Stannia and Federicus are ‘time-stitchers’ in a future timeline where the Roman Empire is still going strong. No, it’s not Roma Nova, but a completely made-up world.
The instigator of this short story collection, Helen Hollick, told the ten authors to let […]
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Dresden by night along the River Elbe Photo by Kolossos, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Character and plot are the elements that drive a story for me, but neither can work properly without interaction with the setting in each scene. It can be weather, time of day, city, village, mountains, muddy road, […]
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