The Risen Empire The Risen Empire
Book 1 - Succession

The Risen Empire

Book One of Succession

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Publisher Description

From Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of the Leviathan trilogy and the Uglies series comes a sweeping space opera, The Risen Empire, book one of the Succession duology.

The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. No one can touch them.

Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.

Separated by light-years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham must each in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, and they each will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2008
July 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Tor Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
2.9
MB

Customer Reviews

SnowGordon ,

Holds Up

I first read this book and it’s sequel shortly after it’s release, while I was in highschool - and again over 10 years later and i enjoyed it as much the second time as the first.

Factualvermin ,

Rip

The whole undead emperor ruling a galactic empire is a total rip off of warhammer 40000. Look it up it's their whole thing and they did it first. But don't not read the book, I didn't so read the other reviews for that.

Jose C Colon ,

Great.

I great and thought provoking adventure.

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