Crossing into the Empire
- Eloi Bronze Medal
- by Robert Silverberg
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Crossing into the Empire” by Robert Silverberg, in David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination, edited by Janet Berliner and David Copperfield (HarperPrism, December 1996).
Mulreany is a trader who travels back to 14th century Byzantium with Coca-Cola and other treats.
One glance and Mulreany has no doubt that the version of the capital that has arrived on this trip is the twelfth-century one.
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- “Crossing into the Empire” by Robert Silverberg, in David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination, edited by Janet Berliner and David Copperfield (HarperPrism, December 1996).