About: dbkwik:resource/awOSDE4GLXMtHaWW9n82MA==

Property	Value
rdf:type	Short Story
rdfs:label	The Emperor's Return
rdfs:comment	The story then cuts to the year 2003, the then-future, as recently-socialist Greece succeeds in taking back Istanbul from Turkey with the aid of the USSR in a bloody war. Constantine XI suddenly appears in the Hagia Sophia, just as the legend of the Marble Emperor predicted, to the shock and confusion of the soldiers present. However, when Constantine decides to re-assert his rule, the soldiers realize he cannot be allowed to live.
dcterms:subject	Works Set in the Byzantine Empire Short Stories Science Fiction Works Set in the 15th Century Works Set in Turkey Short Stories That Have Not Been Collected The Emperor's Return Works Set in the 21st Century 1990 Works Short Stories First Published in a Periodical
Collected	No
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pub date	Spring, 1990
First Appearance	Weird Tales
Genre	Fantasy
ImageSize	180
Author	Harry Turtledove
Illustrator	Janet Aulisio
abstract	The story then cuts to the year 2003, the then-future, as recently-socialist Greece succeeds in taking back Istanbul from Turkey with the aid of the USSR in a bloody war. Constantine XI suddenly appears in the Hagia Sophia, just as the legend of the Marble Emperor predicted, to the shock and confusion of the soldiers present. However, when Constantine decides to re-assert his rule, the soldiers realize he cannot be allowed to live.