"The Second Wave"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 2002
ID: 981
Publication history:
- 2002: Asimov's August 2002, Magazine, 144 pp.
- 2003: Roma Eterna, Eos Hard cover book, ISBN 0380978598, 396 pp.
- 2003: Roma Eterna, Gollancz Hard cover book, ISBN 0575073535, 384 pp.
- 2003: Roma Eterna, Gollancz Trade paperback, ISBN 0575073543, 384 pp.
- 2004: Roma Eterna, Eos Mass market paperback, ISBN 0380814889, 464 pp.
Other resources:
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Comments:
A Roma Eterna story set in the Roman year 1861 (1108 CE). the Emperor Saturninus hears from a Norseman about fantasically wealthy lands across the Ocean Sea, a whole New World. It's been a long time since Rome had new lands to conquer, so Saturninus sets his sights across the western ocean. The first expedition, three legions, had vanished without trace, and now the second wave of the invasion, seven legions well stocked with horses and seige engines, is landing on the shores of a land with the exotic name of Yucatán.