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Smart space opera sci-fi where characters do things based on motivations, rather than playing to character type as the "good guy" or the "bad guy." And there are a lot of fun characters here: the foul-mouthed Type-A corporate/guild sex-crazed daughter of a family dynasty; the con-artist, devious, Machiavellian son of a competing dynasty; the good-as-gold-young-man, seperated from his family and flung out into the wider world; and the poor-little-rich empress, cast up-to-her-neck in court intrigu
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Faster than light time travel being impossible, humans now travel through the universe using the Flow, a sort-of space current flowing between worlds. Without the Flow, the worlds would be isolated from each other, much like Earth was lost many years ago. The Interdependency was established as the government, and the emperox rules peacefully over all worlds. However, as Cardenia Wu-Patrick takes over as the new emperox from her dying father, she learns what Marce Claremont and his father, the Co
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3.5 stars
Fantastic!
Scalzi delivers in this space opera. Already cannot wait for the sequel. Love his writing and I thought the storyline was reminiscent of the old courts of Europe.
Scalzi delivers in this space opera. Already cannot wait for the sequel. Love his writing and I thought the storyline was reminiscent of the old courts of Europe.
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