The Collapsing Empire

by John Scalzi

Book, 2017

Publication

Tor Books (2017), 336 pages

Awards

Hugo Award (Nominee — Novel — 2018)
Locus Award (Finalist — Science Fiction Novel — 2018)
RUSA CODES Reading List (Winner — Science Fiction — 2018)
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (Shortlist — 2022)
Dragon Award (Finalist — Science Fiction Novel — 2017)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender woman) is bisexual.

Publisher's Summary: Our universe is ruled by physics. 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...When it’s discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, three individuals—a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency—must race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.

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