'Scalzi has constructed a thrilling novel so in tune with the flow of politics that it would feel relevant at almost any time.' - Entertainment Weekly, Grade B+ 'Provocative and unexpected.' - The Wall Street Journal 'Another fast-paced romp through Scalzi's imagination, bearing hallmarks of his humorous slant on sf tropes.' - Library Journal Will Grayland become the savior of her civilization. Grayland and her thinning list of allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves, and all of humanity. But “control” is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people form impoverished isolation, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power, by any means necessary. and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known.Įmperox Grayland II has finally wrested control of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of this collapse. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction. Entire star systems-and billions of people-are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. 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.The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. 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 extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man’s War.

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