Not the best Silverberg, but we must recognize that it reads very well. Ten big news, it s' question from the title are biased to the Roman empire, yes; endured for 2000 years! history has not + tour in the religious context because the monotheistic religions n 'have never took off ... the discovery of america has occurred but a substantially different manner. Too bad the quality of news is still quite uneven. Note still the delicacy of Robert Silverberg suggests to us that in the recent news that Roman empire or not, the same problems resurface in modern society in the occurrence a so-called "super DEMOCRATIC freedom" which is mainly a "good people consume ON S 'CARE OF EVERYTHING ..."