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The collapsing empire

The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Redshirts" and "Old Man's War."

Main Author: Scalzi, John, 1969-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Tor Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Interplanetary voyages > Fiction.
Life on other planets > Fiction.
Space and time > Fiction.
Science fiction.
Summary: The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Redshirts" and "Old Man's War."
Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Its a hedge against interstellar war and, for the empires rulers, a system of control. The Flow is eternal but its not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. When its discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, three individuals a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency must race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.
Physical Description: 372 pages
ISBN: 9780765388902
0765388901
Author Notes: John Michael Scalzi was born May 10, 1969 in California. He attended the University of Chicago. During his 1989 -1990 school year he was the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon. After graduating in 1991, Scalzi took a job as the film critic for the Fresno Bee newspaper, eventually also becoming a humor columnist. In 1996 he was hired as the in-house writer and editor at America Online. When he was laid off in 1998, he decided to become a full-time freelance writer and author. His first published novel was Old Man's War. His other works include Agent to the Stars, The Ghosts Brigades, The Androids Team, The Sagan Diary, The Last Colony, and Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas. In 2014 his title, Locked In, made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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