What if the Roman Empire had an Industrial Revolution?

A conversation about speculative fiction and world-building with ‘Kingdom of the Wicked’ author Helen Dale. What if the Roman Empire had an Industrial Revolution?

 
What if the Roman Empire had experienced an Industrial Revolution? That’s the compelling hook of Helen Dale‘s two-part novel, Kingdom of the Wicked: Rules and Order. Drawing on economics and legal history, Helen’s story follows the arrest and trial of charismatic holy man Yeshua Ben Yusuf in the first century — but one with television, flying machines, cars, and genetic modification.

In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I dive into the fascinating world-building of Kingdom of the Wicked with Helen. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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