It's science fiction, but (the better) half of Stephen Baxter's Coalescent (http...

		akkartik on Dec 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Call this a recession? It isn’t the Dark Ages It's science fiction, but (the better) half of Stephen Baxter's Coalescent (http://www.amazon.com/Coalescent-Stephen-Baxter/dp/034545785...) is set in 4th c. Britain. Nothing else has given me that sense of being there when the wavefront of the empire receded.