Veritas
by Robert Reed
Jonathon Colfax, Emperor of the Roman Empire, tells the story of his travel back from the
21st century and the intrigues of his rise to power.
Robert Reed is my favorite prolific short story author from around the turn of the millennium.
What we should do is gather up a group of people, and train them, and then travel back in
time and conquer the Roman Empire.
“Veritas” by Robert Reed, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2002.