The culture is unrelentingly modern American in everything from dialogue to attitude and there is no sense at all of a multi cultural interplanetary society. The basic premis is fine and Wheaton does a reasonable job with the narration, but the dialogue is immature and seems to be aimed at young teenage boys. I really struggled to finish this book and I'm surprised at how many good reviews it has.
When it's discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster-than-light travel forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain, and the empress of the Interdependency - are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. an engaging, well-crafted sci-fi drama.2018 Locus Award, Best Science Fiction Novel 'Rousing storytelling and satisfying intrigue. Ĭontinue the space adventure trilogy with The Consuming Fire. Yet as they work to save a civilization on the brink of collapse, others have very different plans. And the new Empress of the Interdependency must battle lies, rebellion and treason.
A scion of a Merchant House stumbles upon conspirators seeking power.
But 'The Flow' is changing course, which could plunge every colony into fatal isolation.Ī scientist will risk his life to inform the empire's ruler. This relies on extra-dimensional pathways between the stars, connecting worlds. The empire's outposts are utterly dependent on each other for resources, a safeguard against war, and a way its rulers can exert control. Now this interstellar network of worlds faces disaster – but can three individuals save their people? In the far future, humanity has left Earth to create a glorious empire. The Collapsing Empire is an exciting space opera from John Scalzi, the first in the award-winning Interdependency series.
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