Rome Burning is the second book of Sophia McDougall's projected trilogy, following her debut novel, Romanitas, set in a world where the Roman Empire has survived to contemporary times. Three years after the events of Romanitas, the Empire is on the brink of war with Nionia (Japan), and plagued b...
They were moving her to the cells beneath in the morning. Una rose suddenly from the bed and marched to the door as if she expected to find it open, went back to the bed and sat with her arms wrapped round herself again. She had not pulled back the blankets, or closed her eyes: she didn’t want to...
We watched from the clifftop as the air rippled behind it, and all the hooting, whistling things of the forest lifted into the air, bursting into a panicky chorus. Uwaelee strove up into the missile’s wake, chasing after it as it sped away, as if she would follow it all the way into orbit. And af...