The settings for Sean's work range from the Roman Empire, through Medieval Europe, to cities of the distant future. Sean spent several years in student reviews and theatre, and was lead singer in three rock and folk bands, and spent two years in the Victorian State Opera before he began writing. This is an unusual time travel novel by the inventive Sean McMullen, the author of the very entertaining Greatwinter Trilogy. In this book, time travel is accomplished one way by suspended animation technology discovered by a group of Etruscans/5(14). Sean McMullen The centurion's empire ATOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK NEW YORK NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. Ft was.
Sean McMullen, frequent winner of Australia's top science fiction award, the Ditmar, has created a fascinating adventure through time in The Centurion's www.doorway.ru A.D. 71 to , the Roman centurion Vitellan hibernates through the centuries via an elixir made from snow-dwelling insects. A novel by Sean McMullen When Vitellan, Imperial Rome's last human-powered time machine, heads for the 21st century, he finds himself a bewildered fugitive. Betrayed and hunted in a world where minds and bodies are swapped, and memories are bought, sold and read like books, he has yet to learn there is worse to come. The Centurion's Empire. Sean Mcmullen. $; $; Publisher Description. In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman Centurion Vitellan set off for the twenty-first century as Imperial Rome's last human-powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just letting her grow old, but her hate pursued him across seven.
McMullen (Voices in the Light), a three-time winner of the Aurealis Award, has crafted a novel that's both historical and futuristic, with much to recommend it. The story begins in A.D. 71, when Vitellan Bavalius is a simple sailor. The settings for Sean's work range from the Roman Empire, through Medieval Europe, to cities of the distant future. Sean spent several years in student reviews and theatre, and was lead singer in three rock and folk bands, and spent two years in the Victorian State Opera before he began writing. McMullen has done a fine job here of telling an unusual time-travel story about a Roman Centurion, Vitellan, who finds a way to move into the future. The story takes place in four time periods; around 71 AD in the Roman Empire; AD in Britain in the Dark Ages; in northern France; and finally in America--this last section accounting for over half of the book.
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