A Note to Readers

Chapter 0 of Unburning Alexandria was published as Chapter 11 of The Plot to Save Socrates "author's cut" ebook in December 2012, but was not published in the original hardcover (2006) and paperback (2007) editions of The Plot to Save Socrates. I included it as Chapter 0 in this novel so that readers of the printed editions of The Plot to Save Socrates would have the entire continuing story before them in this novel. Slightly different versions of Chapters 0 and 1 of this novel were also previously published as a novelette in Analog: Science Fiction and Fact magazine in November 2008.

This novel contains a mix of real and fictional characters. An "Appendix" has been included at end of the novel, with brief biographies of real people in history who either appear or are significantly mentioned in the novel.