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continuation of the story, Against this alternative history and military strategy novel, Thomas Harlan delves into events involving sorcery in Persia, Rome and Arabia, as the sorcerer Dahak plots to regain the Peacock Throne.
This is the sequel to The Shadow of Ararat, Amazon. com This is the second book in the Oath of Empire series, set in an alternate Roman Empire circa A.
D Prince Maxian, younger brother to Galen, Emperor of the Western Empire Rome, and Heraclius, Emperor of the Eastern Empire Constantinople, has returned to Rome to disrupt the magical power of the centuriesold oath of allegiance to the Emperor that all legionnaires take.
Maxian believes the oath constrains citizens to a narrow path, stifling creativity as well as any thought of disobedience, and he intends to use all his sorcerous powerand the help of Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar, whom he has raised from the deadto succeed.
The Empire, meanwhile, is threatened by multiple enemies: The insane Persian necromancer Dahak is determined to raise an army by any means to regain the Peacock Throne toppled by the Empire.
Zoë, niece of Palmyra's Queen Zenobia, and her ragged but determined followers plot revenge on Rome for allowing the Persians to sack and destroy their beloved city.
And in the deserts of Iraq, a man named Mohammed is driven by a prophetic vision to build an

army against the Empire.
Harlan's attention to detail is impressive, at times overwhelming, as he fills the broad canvas of his hypothetical Roman Empire.
Readers with the stamina to follow every thread of the multitudinous plot lines here will find a vigorously imagined, thoughtprovoking story.
Charlene Brusso Just couldn't get into this book, Finally gave up amp gave it away, Rome and Byzantium against Persia with magic second round: even more impressive with Mahommed really shining in this volume Fantasy, alternate history and science fiction writer Thomas Harlan is the author of the critically acclaimed Oath of Empire series from Tor Books.
He has been twice nominated for the John W, Campbell Award for Best New Author inand, In May of, he received the SFAward for Best New Fantasy Author, His first novel, The Shadow of Ararat was selected as one of the Barnes Noble TopBest SFF Novels of.
The sequel, Gate of Fire, was chosen as both a BN Topbook and placed on Locus Magazines Recommended Reading list for the year.
The third and fourth Oath of Empire novels, The Storm of Heaven and The Dark Lord were released in May ofand.
A new series followed the cataclysmic end of Oath an alter Fantasy, alternate history and science fiction writer Thomas Harlan is the author of the critically acclaimed Oath of Empire series from Tor Books.
He has been twice nominated for the John W, Campbell Award for Best New Author inand, In May of, he received the SFAward for Best New Fantasy Author, His first novel, The Shadow of Ararat was selected as one of the Barnes Noble TopBest SFF Novels of.
The sequel, Gate of Fire, was chosen as both a BN Topbook and placed on Locus Magazines Recommended Reading list for the year.
The third and fourth Oath of Empire novels, The Storm of Heaven and The Dark Lord were released in May ofand.
A new series followed the cataclysmic end of Oath an alternate history science fiction archaeological/combat series called In the time of the Sixth Sun.
The first book, Wasteland of Flint, was published inand received a starred review in Kirkus, House of Reeds followed in, and Land of the Dead in, Thomas has published a variety of very well received short fiction in Dragon magazine, as well as the largest adventure module ever published in Dungeon.
Twenty years of game design have produced a number of play by email systems, of which the long running and increasingly complex Lords of the Earth is the best known.
Lords is a historical simulation game, encompassing the whole of the Earth, modeling political, economic and military conflict from the early Iron Age to the lates.
There are over forty Lords of the Earth campaigns currently in progress, in English, Spanish, and Italian, The initial campaign has been running for over twenty years and has chronicled the period fromAD toAD.
Lords of the Earth was nominated for an Origins/GAMA award for Best PBM Game of the Year in.
Thomas was born in Tucson, Arizona on Februaryth,, He was raised by archaeologist dendrochronologist botanist parents and traveled widely throughout the American southwest and overseas as a result.
A steady diet of Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, Herbert Dune, Herge Tintin, Goscinny Uderzo Asterix, John Buchan Greenmantle, The Thirty Nine Steps, etc.
, Talbot Mundy The Nine Unknown, Jimgrim, King of the Khyber Rifles, Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars, Kenneth Bulmer Prescot of Scorpio and other purveyors of the fantastic inform his literary background.
An excessively long stay in college provided him with a moderate background in creative writing, history, art and other sundry skills helpful to a novelist.
Aside from his literary career, Thomas spent too many years in the information technology industry as a developer, manager and architect for government, education and healthcare.
He currently lives in Salem, Oregon, sitelink.