num_pages: 480
description: A feminist Guardians of the Galaxya smart swashbuckling wildly imaginative adventure of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits dangerous renegades and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future.A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking quick decision-making and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement she's trying to outrun those who are trying to steal her success.In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine. The end of time is ruled by an ancient powerful Empress who blesses or blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally impossible to consider--until Vivian arrives. Trapped between the Pride a ravening horde of sentient machines and a fanatical sect of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith Viv must rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a way back to the world and life she left behind.A magnificent work of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action Empress of Forever is a feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks and William Gibson.
language: English
title: Empress of Forever
publisher: Tor Books