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The novel is presented as a series of vignettes over a period of about 1500 years, from Ab Urbe Condita 1282 (AD 529) to AUC 2723 (AD 1970). Most of the story-chapters involve Roman politics, either the competition between the Western and Eastern Empires to dominate the other or the violent creation of the Second Roman Republic in about AUC 2603 (AD 1850).
A mysterious girl, named Homura Akemi, has made a contract with a being known as Kyubey, to go back in time and save the titular character. 2011 2011 Terra Nova: When Earth is threatened with extinction in 2149, specially-selected humans travel back 85 million years in hopes of preventing the later disaster.
Earth and the Moon will be most likely be destroyed by falling into the Sun, just before the Sun reaches the largest of its red giant phase when it will be 256 times larger than it is now. Before the final collision, the Moon possibly spirals below Earth's Roche limit, breaking into a ring of debris, most of which falls to Earth's surface. [216 ...
The novel had sold more than 300,000 copies in Spain by the time the sequel Maldita Roma was published in 2023. [2]Publishers Weekly called I Am Rome "an engrossing narrative" with "action, oratory, and spectacle galore", writing that its frequent disregard for historical accuracy makes it comparable to Christian Jacq's novels about Ramses II. [3]
Now and Forever is a romance novel, written by American Danielle Steel and published on 1978 by Dell Publishing. It is Steel's third novel. Plot summary
Casca is a series of historical fantasy novels created by author Barry Sadler in 1979. The stories revolve around the exploits of Casca Rufio Longinus, the Roman legionary who drove the Holy Lance into the side of Jesus Christ on Golgotha.
Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, hit theaters 10 years ago
Book 2 begins with a different point of view; the subject is now a minor Achuultani tactical officer named Brashieel, attached to the scout forces about to drop out of hyperspace and destroy Earth. However, the Achuultani warships are extremely slow in hyperspace, and the Earth defenders use their several hours of advance notice to prepare an ...