![]() ![]() The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ![]() 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. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. 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. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. ![]() He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. ![]() Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. 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. ![]()
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