A fun idea (What if ancient Rome's best and brightest, and most cold-resistant, maintained their Empire via cryonics?) marred by its execution. First half (Roman and medieval times) is largely prelude and wordy back story. Second half, in the (now-not-too-distant) future, is strongly reminiscen...
This trilogy kept me off balance. Characters didn't stay in neat, enduring categories of good or bad. They kept doing positive and negative things for their own selfish reasons. On the aggregate, it eventually worked out for the better for all involved. (But not in a Rand-ian market way.) Ju...