The collapsing empire
By: John Scalzi
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780765388889
Subjects: Fiction; Space and time; Interplanetary voyages; Life on other planets
Description: 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. But when it's discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency must race to find out what can be salvaged from an empire on the brink of collapse. --
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."