![]() ![]() ![]() In a departure from the usual Star Wars/Star Trek/Let’s-Pop-Over-To-Alpha-Centauri-For-The-Afternoon sci-fi setting, Scazi has created a universe where the pivotal issue in human civilization is distance. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to read one of John Scalzi’s books, but I’m very grateful that I had to read last year’s The Collapsing Empire as prep for this year’s Hugo Awards, since I flew through the entire book in a matter of days. What we start to realize though is that these are just the first steps in a dance that’s eventually going to lead to the end of the Interdependency, and possibly the extinction of the human race. ![]() It starts with an interrupted mutiny, and the death of an Emperor two unrelated events taking place in the sprawling mass of humanity that is the Interdependency. ![]()
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