"Audubon in Atlantis", the first-published story in the series, set in 1843, focusing on John James Audubon's expedition to the continent/country of Atlantis. It takes place between The United States of Atlantis and Liberating...
Against all expectations, Krispos had won the crown of Videssos. But how long could he hope to keep head and crown together? Civil war erupted under Petronas, who had a very personal score to settle with Krispos. And even as rebel troops took the...
Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in the imperial capital, The Empire's health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep.
Driven by crushing taxes from the farm...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a universe in which Constantinople never fell, the Byzantine Empire has flourished by developing technology and spreading its influence but finds itself at the mercy of its jealous...
At the sun-drenched dawn of human history, in the great plain between the two great rivers, are the cities of men. And each city is ruled by its god.
But the god of the city of Gibil is lazy and has let the men of his city develop the habit of...
"The Scarlet Band", a Sherlock Holmes pastiche set decades after Audubon's trip, focusing on a controversial religious movement called the House of Universal Devotion. Chronologically it is the last story set in this...
Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man-and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city... if his world had not suddenly and tragically fallen apart when the Empire...