The killing of worlds
By: Scott Westerfeld
Edition: 1st Trade pbk. ed.
Series: Succession -- bk. 2
Publisher: Tor
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780765320520
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Space ships; Fiction; Science fiction; Immortality; Space vehicles; Life on other planets; Immortalism; Imperialism
Description: "Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate faces a suicied mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover, Senaotr Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. The Emperor has a terrible secret, a secret Nara is in danger of finding out, a secret for which he would countenance the killing of worlds"--Back cover.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."