Sargassa: Recommended with caveats

Sargassa by Sophie Burnham

The first book in a series by Sophie Burnham entitled EX ROMANA, Sargassa is, not unsurprisingly given that series name, set in a world where the Roman Empire seemingly never fell, at last not permanently, though there was a mysterious “Great Quiet” in which most of the prior knowledge and technology was lost before the Empire was reestablished. More specifically, the novel is set in Sargassa, long ago colonized by the Roman Imperium and now home to the Imperial Archives, the repository of all the Empire’s knowledge and lore.


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