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	Belisarius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belisarius was also made sole consul in 534, being one of the last individuals ever to hold this office which was, by this time, merely a ceremonial relic of the ancient Roman Republic.
		Marmontel and the painters and sculptors (a bust of Belisarius by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Stouf is at the J.
		Belisarius is also the main character of the Belisarius series in a series of six science fiction novels by Eric Flint and David Drake, an alternate history exploring what might have happened if Belisarius (and a rival) were granted knowledge of future events and technologies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belisarius (2202 words)

	Belisarius Biography
		Belisarius took the field and waged a brief, inconclusive campaign against them, but ultimately (545) was able to negotiate a peace (aided with payment of a large sum of money, 5000 pounds of gold), in which the Persians agreed not to attack Roman territory, not for eternity, but for five years.
		Belisarius was forced to go on the defensive, and in 548, Justinian relieved him in favor of Narses, of whom he was more trustful.
		Belisarius is a main character of the Belisarius series of science fiction novels by Eric Flint and David Drake, an alternate history exploring what might have happened if Belisarius (and a rival) were granted knowledge of future events and technologies.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Belisarius.html (1117 words)

	Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1932, British historian Sir John Squire collected a series of essays, many of which could be considered stories, in If It Had Happened Otherwise from some of the leading historians of the period.
		In Eric Flint's 1632 series, a small town in West Virginia is transported to 17th century Europe and leads a revolution against the Hapsburgs.
		This example is not as clear as the Plymouth one, since Resnick never reveals whether or not Woodhull's election was the outcome of a POD (or perhaps a "butterfly effect") that changed history years before the election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternate_history (5693 words)

	Bookshelved Wiki: FortunesStroke
		Belisarius was the real life general of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian 1 and Belisarius was known for his strategic skill against the Persians and the conquest of Rome against the Vandals.
		In this series Belisarius is the strategos of Rome (Byzantine Empire).
		In the progression of the series, Belisarius finally engages his first peer among the Malwa, Rana Sanga, who happens to be part of a race that is subject to the Malwa.
	bookshelved.org /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FortunesStroke (1317 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Tide of Victory at Epinions.com
		General Belisarius was planning on a long lead-up to the campaign, waiting for favorable weather after the Monsoon season, but his wife, the Persians and Axumites are each able to provide persuasive arguments and logistics that finally convince Belisarius that attacking early is his best bet.
		As you may have guessed this alternate history series in unlike many others in that it seriously asks not only what the first order, immediate impacts to historical changes would entail, but then carries out a multi-level analysis from those changes.
		Belisarius' quick analysis of the possible and the probable is still something we marvel at today, and the extra dimensions afforded by Aide in knowing how the future played out has put powerful capability into play.
	www.epinions.com /content_76903255684 (1778 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Alternative history (fiction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The "Lord Darcy" fantasy series by Randall Garrett; a number of short stories and one novel (Too Many Magicians) based on the premise that King Richard I of England returned safely from France and that Roger Bacon had systematised the laws of magic.
		The stories are a series of traditional detective fiction-style murder mysteries with forensic magic being used in the investigation.
		The Belisarius series of novels by David Drake and Eric Flint take place when opposing factions from the future influence early times through intermediaries for their own purposes; the 'good' side operating through the Byzantine general Belisarius and the 'evil' side operating through the Indian state of Malwa.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Alternative_history_(fiction) (3911 words)

	belisarius.html
		After all, Emperor Justinian was born a peasant; Empress Theodora was a prostitute; Narses, the principal advisor to the emperor, was a eunuch; the great General Belisarius himself was a minor noble from a rural province and his beloved wife, Antonina, another former prostitute.
		Belisarius is shown as a great general, as he was in history.
		The Malwa are guided by a computer from the future called "Link." Belisarius has his own guide from the future: a living, jewel-like entity named "Aide." This aspect of the stories may have more to do with marketing (putting the books on the science fiction shelves) than with the needs of the story.
	modena.intergate.ca /personal/gslj/belisarius.html (1010 words)

	Amazon.ca: Destiny'S Shield (Hardcover): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is written in three parallel streams-General Belisarius allied with Persians to defend Babylon against an overwhelming alien-led Malwa invasion, his wife Antonina attempting to recover Egypt as the foundry of empire, and a rebel empress subverting the Malwa powerbase in the Ghats of India.
		Belisarius defeats a raiding Malwa cavalry force as he approaches ancient Babylon where the Persian Emperor is beseiged.
		Belisarius's wife, Antonia is sent to Alexandria to reassert Roman Imperial authority (as was often the case in historical Byzantine Egypt, religious disputes threaten Roman rule) and to create an arsenal for her husband and Shakuntala--and the nucleus for a new front against the huge Malwa armies.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671578170 (1120 words)

	The View from the Foothills: An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, by David Drake and Eric ...
		These are the first two books in the duo's "Belisarius" series, a series with one of the silliest premises I've seen in a long time.
		Belisarius is his best general, and perhaps one of the greatest generals of all time.
		But then a hermit comes to Belisarius with a mysterious crystal that brings visions, and this is where Belisarius' story and our own history explicitly part company.
	foothills.wjduquette.com /archives/001189.html (667 words)

	An Oblique Approach by David Drake, Eric Flint - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
		Belisarius, the finest general of his or any age, must save the world if he can.
		As Belisarius fights his way across the chaos of northern India, Constantinople explodes in a tumult that could destroy the city, the empire, and all hope for mankind.
		Count Belisarius, the greatest general of Byzantium and perhaps the greatest of all time, must defeat the Malwa and the enemies of humankind which direct the evil empire.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=8&p1=636 (1082 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Fortune's Stroke [Belisarius Series #4] by Eric Flint & David Drake
		With his sword, his paladins, and his genius, Belisarius has turned the armies of Byzantium into a weapon capable of blunting the first assault of the Malwa hordes.
		Now, supported by allies from all the world yet free, Belisarius, with his wife and co-commander Antonia, faces overwhelming Malwa numbers in a ring that tightens about them.
		Belisarius went to Peroz-Shapur to rest and refit his army over the winter.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook1556.htm (1298 words)

	Eric Flint’s place on the web » F.A.Q.’s
		In later volumes of the series, we’ll probably be mixing it up even more now that all three of us have gotten a better sense of each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
		What I think is going to happen with all of the books in the Heirs series is what happened in the end with the first one: the plot outline develops in stages, with the three of us producing a “rough outline” and then fine-tuning it as we get closer to the writing.
		But Belisarius himself is clearly the “first among equals,” and, of the rest, Antonina just as clearly occupies pride of place.
	www.ericflint.net /index.php/faqs (4011 words)

	Amazon.com: An Oblique Approach: Books: Eric Flint,David Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When Belisarius was traveling to assume command the army at Daras, the monk Michael of Macedonia and Anthony Cassian, the local bishop, came to his new house in Aleppo, bringing a strange object found by Michael within his cave in the desert.
		Belisarius does have one large advantage in that his bucellarii, his personal guard, are past masters of covert operations.
		Belisarius has a fiendish mind for strategy and tactics, combined with that gift is a high code of honor and ethics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671878654?v=glance (2645 words)

	Bookshelved Wiki: TheTideOfVictory
		Belisarius is originally from a peasant family, not nobility, and if he was not a soldier, he would have been a flsmith like his father.
		While there is always injustice, oppression, one of the one guarantees that all people have is that their rulers would allow them to survive, but this is not true for a master race that seeks to remove those considered to be less valuable.
		Belisarius then employs what is now known as Grand Strategy by Boyd and others, he orders his army to treat the peasants well, to not pillage the land, not to steal or commite acts of pillage and rapine common to all armies of the period.
	bookshelved.org /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TheTideOfVictory (1452 words)

	Eric Flint’s place on the web » Forums
		That’s true even with a series like the Belisarius series, where each book is very much like the others, in terms of everything except the specific plot of the novel.
		It will be even more true of series which, by their nature, are highly variegated in the sense that different books in the series will often have a very different style and flavor to them.
		This is particularly true with the type of series that the 1632 series represents, which is what you can think of as “open-ended.” What I mean by that is that there is no set and definite end point toward which the whole series is being shaped.
	www.ericflint.net /?page_id=14 (4660 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dance of Time (Belisarius Saga S.): Books: Eric Flint,David Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Belisarius, the greatest general of his age, has arrayed the forces of Mankind against the Malwa evil.
		Besides the bestselling Hammer's Slammers series, his books for Baen include the Lt. Leary series, the latest being The Way to Glory, and the Belisarius series, written in collaboration with Eric Flint, of which The Dance of Time is the sixth and concluding novel.
		This series, as a whole, is a magnificent tapestry, with threads artfully woven together and apart, forming a marvelous and beautiful whole.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1416509313?v=glance (2484 words)

	Amazon.ca: In the Heart of Darkness: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Belisarius, the finest general of his age, must save the world.
		Belisarius has succeeded in his "Oblique Approach" and has set up the environment necessary to beat his enemy into obliteration.
		I was hooked from the first page and by reading the first book in the series, and watching characters who have become my friends as they work, play, hope, scheme, dream, love, hate and fight against the background of a world in the shadow of monstrous evil.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671878859 (983 words)

	pambooks
		All lists of series books are listed in the order in which they are to be read.
		The historical timeline is altered by the knowledge this device provides to the hero, Belisarius, and changes not only the technology available but also the strategy and tactics of war.
		The series of books takes us through the development of future technologies and their use in many battles against the Malwa.
	www.themindofpam.com /pambooks (819 words)

	Vox’s bookshelf :: Eric Flint’s 1632 Universe, aka, Assiti Shards Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Series talks about how the american uptimers manage (or not) to survive in the new, lethal environment in which they find themselfs, and about how the downtimers react to having a new town suddently appear in the middle of their countryside during the war.
		The daily struggle and the long-term goals…survival is at stake, and it’s up to the 3500 people that were yanked from their country and time to find a way to make it through, losing as little as possible of their society, knowledgebase and technology.
		This is one of the best what-if historical series I’ve read in a long long time (together with the Belisarius Series, in which Flint also has his hand), and it’s well worth reading it.
	linuxuanl.org /~vox/2006/03/28/eric-flints-1632-universe-aka-assiti-shards-series (527 words)

	books about: 505 (sensesational historical belisarius) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In December Belisarius entered Rome from the south through the Porta Asinaria by the Basilica of Constantine.
		Belisarius suffered from no illusions; he knew the Goths would soon be back in force to lay siege to the city.
		This long delayed conclusion to the series was well worth waiting for - the authors did a magnificent job of making a strongly foreshadowed conclusion both dramatic and satisfying, while providing some plot twists that were enjoyable without seeming strained.
	www.very-clever.com /books/505 (1192 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: In the Heart of Darkness: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Belisarius, the great general, is all that stands between the alien Malwa and domination of sixth-century Earth.
		Belisarius is one of histories great might have beens.
		David Drake wrote that he presented S. Stirling with an essay on the life of Belisarius, the series "The General" resulted.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671878859 (717 words)

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		Her Vorkosigan series is marketed as military science fiction, but it is not.
		Marion Zimmer Bradley - retro SF; her Darkover series is the grayest of gray areas between fantasy and SF.
		The _WtL_ series and the alternate history Belisarius series are recommended, the rest are not.
	www.ucolick.org /~jhhowell/sf2.txt (2087 words)

	Book Review: The Tide of Victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Tide of Victory is the fifth book in the Belisarius series by Eric Flint and David Drake.
		In each of the other books, Belisarius was hugely outmatched by the forces of his enemy, the Malwa Empire.
		Belisarius, for the first time, takes unnecessary risks with the lives of his men.
	modena.intergate.ca /personal/gslj/thetideofvictory.html (302 words)

	IN THE SAME SERIES BY THESE AUTHORS:
		If the enemy thought General Belisarius was tough, wait until they meet the wife of one of his soldiers in Eric Flint's "Island." She was wed just before her husband left with Belisarius to fight an evil from beyond time.
		Now her husband is wounded, and she is going to travel a thousand miles to reach his side—and few who get in her way will live to regret it.
		With David Drake he has collaborated on five novels in the acclaimed "Belisarius" series.
	www.baen.com /chapters/W200205/0743435346__c_.htm (572 words)

	Review of FORTUNE'S STROKE by Eric Flint and David Drake
		Historically, Belisarius was the greatest general of the late ancient world--the man Byzantine Emperor Justinian relied upon in his reconquest of the Roman Mediterranian.
		Although the series continues to be interesting, with engaging characters and vivid battle scenes, FORTUNE'S STROKE is not the strongest novel in the series.
		Although Belisarius and his allies repeatedly note that the first law of battle is that things get messed up (in stronger language), in fact, Belisarius's plans never actually get messed up (except a minor problem at the very beginning).
	www.booksforabuck.com /sfpages/fortune_stroke.html (557 words)

	Ed's Home Page
		The Castaways in Time series by the late Robert Adams (better known for his Horseclans series) deals with a group of 20th Century Americans who have accidently been sent back in time to an alternate Britain where Arthur III is King.
		The authors have written a couple of sequels to the series: The Chosen, where the technology level is roughly equivalent to that from WWI to early WWII, and The Reformer which sets the tech level about equal to that of the Romans.
		The last book in the series (that I am aware of, anyway) is "The Dance of Time", but I have not yet encountered it.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Portal/3685 (1322 words)

	The View from the Foothills: October 2002 Archives
		This is a series with White Hats and Black Hats, and the Black Hats (with the exception of a few misguided souls who eventually come 'round) are very Black indeed.
		Belisarius is accompanied by another visitor from the far future, the crystalline entity called "Aide".
		"Death and the Chapman" is the first in the series and sets up the life of Roger leaving the monastery to seek his fortune on the road after his mother dies and frees him from his obligation to fulfill her wishes that he become a monk.
	foothills.wjduquette.com /archives/2002_10.html (11568 words)

	Good Books List - By Author
		By the time of this series, the Terrans are a third political space-based empire, although they haven't been at the focus of any of the novels yet.
		Patricia Kennealy's Celtic series, where Terrans of several hundred years from now are exploring space and are shocked to find an existing empire of Celtic druids that have both spaceships and magic.
		The Blood series, set in the present, is about a female detective who becomes entangled with supernatural, starting with a rather appealing vampire who started life as the bastard son of Henry VIII.
	www.cs.ubc.ca /~tmm/books/books.auth.html (12603 words)

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