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The Collapsing Empire
A Science Fiction Novel by John Scalzi
Book 1 of the The Interdependency Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Space Opera,
- Political Intrigue
This book is for you if you're into...
- Space empires built on economic monopolies and fragile alliances
- Sci-fi where physics and politics collide with galaxy-shaking consequences
- Multiple perspectives racing to save a doomed interstellar civilization
From Little Stack
The Interdependency in John Scalzi’s Interdependency Trilogy is less all-powerful Empire and more corporate conglomerate that spans the known universe. It’s a seafaring (or spacefaring) empire that controls through clever politics, economic monopolies, and most importantly, limiting general access to technology. Unlike many other empires, it’s not self-sufficient or self-sustaining, but like the stock markets and global economies of today, only works so long as everyone agrees to buy into the delusion and play the economic game.
When the Flow (FTL travel) begins to collapse, it’s a race against time to keep the Interdependency from collapsing right along with it.
Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible—until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars.
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. It’s a hedge against interstellar war—and, for the empire’s rulers, a system of control.
The Flow is eternal—but it’s 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 it’s 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.
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