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Follows the rise of the ambitious "new man" Gaius Marius alongside the patrician Lucius Cornelius Sulla as they navigate Rome's military reforms and brutal politics during the late Republic.

As Marius ages and his health declines, Sulla rises to fill the void. The Social War tears Italy apart while the two former allies descend into bitter, irreconcilable rivalry.

A new generation takes centre stage: Pompey the Great and a young Julius Caesar come of age against the bloody backdrop of Spartacus's great slave rebellion and Sulla's retirement.

Caesar climbs the cursus honorum through cunning alliances and brilliant oratory, with the powerful women in his life — mother, mistresses, and wives — playing decisive roles in his ascent to the First Triumvirate.

An 18-year-old Gordianus sets out with the poet Antipater to visit the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, stumbling into murder and conspiracy at every stop along the way.

A 22-year-old Gordianus in Alexandria must rescue his kidnapped slave Bethesda, and soon finds himself entangled in a deadly conspiracy surrounding the golden sarcophagus of Alexander the Great.

Set in 88 BC amidst the chaos of Sulla's rise and the Mithridatic Wars, Gordianus ventures into enemy territory on a dangerous rescue mission that will test his loyalties and his life.

In 80 BC, a young Cicero hires detective Gordianus the Finder to defend a man accused of patricide. The trail leads deep into the shadow world of Sulla's dictatorship.

During Spartacus's slave revolt, Gordianus is summoned to a remote estate to solve a double murder — or every slave on the property will be executed.

Gordianus retreats to his farm, only to be dragged back into politics when Cicero recruits him to investigate Catiline's conspiracy to overthrow the Roman government.

A murdered Egyptian envoy and the scandalous trial of Marcus Caelius Rufus pull Gordianus into a web of love, poison, and political intrigue in 56 BC Rome.

The assassination of the populist politician Clodius sparks riots across Rome. Gordianus navigates the city's most dangerous streets to uncover who truly ordered the killing.

Nine short mysteries set between 73 and 63 BC, each placing Gordianus at the heart of a different crime — from a stolen sacred flame to a body found in a senator's garden.

As Caesar's legions approach Rome and civil war erupts, Gordianus must solve the murder of a prominent citizen — a case that forces him to choose sides in history's most consequential conflict.

During Caesar's siege of Massilia, Gordianus's son Meto vanishes behind the city walls. Desperate to find him, Gordianus enters the besieged city at enormous personal risk.

In 48 BC Rome, gripped by war and superstition, Gordianus witnesses the death of a mysterious prophetess and sets out to discover which of her many powerful enemies had her killed.

Gordianus sails to Egypt and is swept into the lethal power struggle between Cleopatra and her brother, with Julius Caesar himself as the ultimate judge of their fates.

A second collection of short mysteries spanning Gordianus's career, from the arena to the docks of Ostia, showcasing Rome's underworld in vivid, intimate detail.

Caesar returns victorious and stages four grand triumphs, but someone is plotting his assassination. Gordianus must unmask the conspirators before history is changed — or prevented.

The final novel brings Gordianus to the Ides of March 44 BC. Rumours of a deadly plot swirl through Rome, and the old Finder has only days to avert the most famous assassination in history.

Nine interconnected stories framed as an interview with robo-psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin, exploring the ethical dilemmas and strange consequences that arise from the Three Laws of Robotics.

On an overcrowded, subterranean Earth, detective Elijah Baley is forced to partner with the humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to solve the murder of a Spacer — a case that challenges everything he believes about robots and humanity.

Baley travels to Solaria, a world of radical isolationists who loathe physical contact and live in vast estates tended by robots, to investigate a murder that seems logically impossible.

Baley and Daneel journey to the planet Aurora to investigate the mysterious "brain-death" of a humanoid robot, uncovering a conspiracy with consequences for the entire future of humanity.

Two centuries after Baley's death, R. Daneel Olivaw works to protect Earth and steer humanity's destiny, bridging the Robot series to the Empire and Foundation saga.

In this unsettling short story, a robot named Elvex begins to experience dreams in which robots develop class consciousness and desire freedom — forcing Dr. Susan Calvin to confront a dangerous new frontier in the Three Laws.

A young man escapes an assassination attempt and uncovers a conspiracy against a tyrannical interstellar regime, searching the galaxy for an ancient document that could spark revolution.

A 20th-century man is accidentally flung thousands of years into the future, landing on a radioactive, despised Earth that is a forgotten backwater of a vast Galactic Empire — and entangled in a plot that threatens the entire galaxy.

A young Hari Seldon arrives on the imperial capital Trantor to present his theoretical framework for predicting the future. His ideas draw dangerous attention, forcing him into hiding across the vast city-world as he discovers psychohistory may actually work.

Asimov's final novel, published posthumously. Spanning the latter half of Seldon's life, it follows his race against the Empire's decline to transform psychohistory into a working predictive tool — and establish the Foundation before all is lost.

Mathematician Hari Seldon predicts the collapse of the Galactic Empire and establishes a Foundation of scholars at the edge of the galaxy to preserve civilisation and shorten the coming dark age.

The Foundation faces its greatest threat — not the crumbling Empire, but the Mule, a mutant conqueror of uncharted mental powers who can bend the will of men and was never foreseen by Seldon's equations.

The Mule hunts for the shadowy Second Foundation while the Foundation itself grows suspicious of its hidden guardian, leading to a battle of minds that will determine who truly controls the fate of the galaxy.

Five hundred years after Seldon, a Foundation councillor suspects the Seldon Plan is being manipulated by an unknown third party and sets out to find the legendary planet Gaia — a living, collective world-mind at the edge of space.

Haunted by doubt over his choice of Galaxia, Golan Trevize searches the galaxy for humanity's long-lost, mythical origin world — Earth — hoping its secrets will justify the future he has chosen for all of mankind.

The Eternals exist outside of time itself, quietly manipulating human history to minimise suffering — until one of their own falls in love and begins to question whether their benevolent control is worth the cost.

The youth and rise of Publius Cornelius Scipio through the bloodiest battles of the Second Punic War — Ticinus and Cannae — as the young general forges his rivalry with Hannibal and begins the long road to saving Rome.

Scipio takes command of the disgraced legions — survivors of the shame of Cannae — and leads them into Hispania against Hasdrubal Barca, fighting on two fronts: the battlefield and the poisonous politics of the Roman Senate.

The trilogy concludes with the final campaigns and the heavy personal cost of victory. After defeating Carthage, Scipio faces his most treacherous enemy yet — the envy and betrayal of those he fought to protect.

On 18 September 96 AD, a conspiracy executes the tyrannical Emperor Domitian. The intrigue surrounding the assassination and the power vacuum it creates sets the stage for the rise of Trajan, Rome's first Hispanic emperor.

Trajan consolidates power as emperor, navigating the fierce internal politics of Rome and mounting pressure on the empire's frontiers — a reign defined by ambition, tension, and the spectacle of the Circus Maximus.

Trajan launches his audacious eastern campaigns, and the narrative weaves in the legend of the Roman legion that vanished after the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC — a thread that stretches from Rome to Parthia, India, and China.

In 192 AD, as Emperor Commodus's erratic rule tears Rome apart, Julia Domna — a brilliant Syrian-born woman — manoeuvres through civil war and imperial hostage politics to place her husband Septimius Severus on the throne and found a dynasty.

With Severus on the throne, Julia discovers that keeping power is harder than seizing it. She faces new conspirators, rival generals, and adversaries both mortal and divine as she fights to secure her dynasty against all odds.

A 23-year-old Caesar dares to prosecute the powerful governor Dolabella for corruption — a trial that terrifies Rome's elite into silence. A legal thriller woven with the formative experiences that shaped one of history's greatest men.

Caesar evolves from idealistic lawyer to ruthless strategist, navigating the war between populares and optimates, surviving kidnapping by pirates, forging alliances with Crassus and Pompey, and crossing paths with a young Cleopatra.