Sujet : Re: (ReacTor) Five Thinly Veiled Versions of Rome in SF
De : wthyde1953 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (William Hyde)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 12. Nov 2024, 05:43:32
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
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
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For some science fiction authors, all roads really do lead to Rome.
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https://reactormag.com/five-thinly-veiled-versions-of-rome-in-sf/
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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.
But Videssos is a one-to-one mapping of Byzantium.
William Hyde