The risen empire
(2018, original release: 2003)
Fiction
Book
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SF/WESTERFELD,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Tor, 2018
EDITION
Second mass market edition
DESCRIPTION
341 pages ; 17 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250165503, 1250165504 :, 1250165504, 9781250165503
LANGUAGE
English
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NOTES
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Captain Laurent Zai and his pacifist lover Senator Nara Oxham, separated by lightyears, hold the fate of the empire in their hands. They serve an Emperor who has reigned with his sister the Child Empress for sixteen hundred years as living gods. But even gods might bow to the fanaticism of the Rix, machine-augmented humans, who long for the cybernetic rule of a vast AI. Only one immortal dynasty can prevail