Wolf’s Empire: Gladiator (102 page)

C
LAUDIA
C
HRISTIAN
is an actress, writer, director, producer, voice-over artist, and the CEO and founder of the C
3
Foundation. She has starred in studio pictures such as
Clean and Sober
and
The Hidden,
and in TV shows such as science fiction megahit
Babylon 5
. She provided the voice for many characters in games such as
Skyrim, Halo, Guild Wars,
and
Fallout 4,
and in films such as Disney's
Atlantis
. In 2013, she started the C
3
Foundation to provide education and support for people affected by alcohol-use disorder. In 2014, she made the award-winning documentary
One Little Pill
about the Sinclair Method, the treatment she advocates. Claudia lives in Los Angeles. You can sign up for email updates
here
.

M
ORGAN
G
RANT
B
UCHANAN
has written comic books, the screenplay for a sci-fi movie, short stories, and a celebrity memoir with Claudia Christian. He is also a teacher of tai chi and Taoist meditation and lives in Australia. You can sign up for email updates
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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Dramatis Personae

Tria Nomina

Prologue

Part I: Burnt Offerings

Act I: She-Wolf

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

Act II: Mock Hawk

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

Act III: Death Race

XVIII

XIX

XX

XXI

XXII

XXIII

XXIV

XXV

XXVI

Act IV: Bestiarius

XXVII

XXVIII

XXIX

XXX

XXXI

XXXII

XXXIII

Part II: Olympus Falling

Act V: Lumen

XXXIV

XXXV

XXXVI

XXXVII

XXXVIII

Act VI: War Games

XXXIX

XL

XLI

XLII

XLIII

XLIV

XLV

Act VII: Arena

XLVI

XLVII

XLVIII

Act VIII: Lady Justice

XLIX

L

LI

LII

LIII

Epilogue

Diagram: The Eight Noble Houses of the Galactic Imperium

Diagram: The Galactic Roman Empire

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously.

WOLF
'
S EMPIRE: GLADIATOR

Copyright © 2016 by Claudia Christian and Morgan Grant Buchanan

All rights reserved.

The quotation
here
is from
The Satires of Juvenal,
translated by Rolfe Humphries (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958). The quotation
here
is from Virgil,
The Georgics,
translated by J. B. Greenough (1900). The quotations
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
, and
here
are from Virgil,
The Aeneid,
translated by J. W. Mackail (1885).

Cover art by Daniel Dociu

Diagram of the Eight Noble Houses by Morgan Grant Buchanan

Map of the Galactic Roman Empire by Dr. Catherine Buchanan

Milky Way image courtesy of NASA / JPL-Caltech / ESO / R. Hurt

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First Edition: June 2016