Re: (ReacTor) Five Thinly Veiled Versions of Rome in SF

In article <vgtnq0$15a52$1@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

Five Thinly Veiled Versions of Rome in SF
 
For some science fiction authors, all roads really do lead to Rome.
 
https://reactormag.com/five-thinly-veiled-versions-of-rome-in-sf/
 

Not just in science fiction.  Gondor and Arnor are clearly drawn in
large part from the Eastern and Western Roman Empire.
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And Harry Turtledove wrote at least two Byzantine-inspired series that I
can think of.
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I can't at the moment think of where Asimov used Thucydides.  Perhaps he
just needed him for the rhyme.
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Then there's the explicit use of Rome in DeCamp's "Lest Darkness Fall".
It was amusing to read Gibbon and think of these Goths as pictured in
DeCamp's novel.   Entirely not to my surprise, LSDC knew his stuff.
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It is remarkable how many of these feature late Rome, and not the Rome
of the Republic.
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Well, Alan Yates did write an sf novel "Coriolanus, the Chariot", but
IIRC that had nothing to do with Rome.
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William Hyde

The Turtledove was Videssos.  Of course he did an actual Byzantine series
as well.

Not to mention van Vogt's "Empire Of the Atom" stories and the current
Glass Immortals series by Brian McClellan.

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