Peace, Prosperity And A Widened World

In Three Empires, I summarized the Roman Empire as "conquest" and "slavery." Sean Brooks cited Poul Anderson's "Star of the Sea" as presenting a broader view of Roman civilization. Blog readers may be interested in that broader view as quoted in some earlier posts:

Sleet, Rain, Wind And Cold
The Roman Empire And The United States
Naked Survival

The second and third of these posts involve comparisons with SM Stirling's Emberverse series.

And now I might return to Anderson's Operation Chaos which, like most Anderson texts, is proving to be far richer than anyone who has just read it once probably imagines.