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Captured by pirates and sold to a Roman aristocrat as a sex slave, Sporus attracted the attention of no less a personage than the Emperor Nero, ruler of the known world. Would-be poet, patron of the arts, aesthete, and brutal autocrat, the Divine Nero saw in the boy a startling resemblance to the Empress Poppaea - and made him an empress as well. Suetonius, Tacitus, and other Roman historians have given tantalizing glimpses into the incredible life story of the boy who became twice an empress to two emperors, and was condemned to die in the arena by a third. In this meticulously researched ...

The conclusion of the three-book series that began with Delicatus and continued with Imperatrix. Captured by pirates as a boy and trafficked to the slave markets of Rome, Sporus rose from a poet's plaything to one of the most powerful figures in the Roman Empire. The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from "puer delicatus" to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the ...

The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow's Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history's wildest characters. The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from "puer delicatus" to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the arena. World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow weaves a vivid adventure about one of the most colorful personalities ...

One human species has lived a million years in peace and safety on a remote island. Another is advancing with predatory intent. With nowhere to flee, how can one young woman face the danger and live to tell the tale? Floresia, princess of the primeval forest, emerges out of the shadows of a forgotten history to chronicle the last days of her people. This half-size human, Homo floresiensis, thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores until fifty thousand years ago, and the invasion of the El, Homo sapiens. The way Floresia saw it, we are all part of Earth’s creation. Why not coexist, with ...

«Podemos lograrlo...», murmuré para mis adentros. «Si hemos conseguido llegar hasta aquí, es posible que hayamos dejado atrás a los sicarios que nos seguían y que podamos regresar a las tierras de la República». Año 47 a. C. La peligrosa expedición de los exploradores de César en el Reino del Bósforo aún no ha terminado. Quintilio, un agrimensor civil experto en cartografía, regresa a las provincias romanas junto a Arrio, un legionario ingeniero experto en la construcción de puentes. En su arduo retorno a Roma se ven involucrados en una sorprendente investigación en la que ...

Anthopologist Antony Jacobs is once again thrust into controversy surrounding ancient artifacts. Only this time he gets lined up for murder. New Scrolls have been found in the Dead Sea caves and has thrown everyone into panic. And the professor Antony Jacob's is threatened by his colleagues. His autistic grandson is involved but he doesn't know quite how. A secret sex cult has developed around a few of the most heretical passages and a jealous boy follows Gwydion with intent to hurt him. Professor Jacobs and his grandson escape, but another Professor is not so lucky. And the murderer ...

Are world histories founded in visits from other-worldly beings? the earlier bible texts found in the 2000 year old Ng Hammadi library say yes. In this historical fiction, an autistic boy and his grandfather read ancient biblical texts together as bed-time stories. Jesus himself read these exact stories during his life-time. The bible stories seem to be a log of "encounters of the third kind", actual visits from off-worlders. Viewed simply as powerful "Star People" or "Gods" , from the Egyptians to Native Americans, history may be describing extra-terrestrial visitors. Instead of unknowable...

In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes retells the Oedipus and Antigone myths to reveal a new side of an ancient story.... My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents.... Jocasta is just 15 when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.

In the western hinterland of Roman Britannia, Meddi, the seeress of the Eorlingas tribe, can only obtain vengeance when her husband’s dead and her ancestral villa returned to her. With her brother, Madog, as leader, they unite and stand strong against those who seek the riches of their villa. They must harness the power of the lost magiks of iron to make weapons to mercilessly oppose those who seek to challenge and fight to rule.

Britannia, 42AD. The wild island at the fringe of the world is in chaos. Into the turmoil marches the mightiest war machine in history: the legions of Rome. In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphaned boy must come of age within a tribe he despises.