![]() ![]() "The Risen Empire" is the first great space opera of the 21st century. 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, as they 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 worshipped 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 ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Dick Award special citation and a "New York Times" Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, "The Risen Empire," Scott Westerfeld's dazzling hardcover debut. From the acclaimed author of "Fine Prey," "Polymorph," and "Evolution's Darling "(Philip K. ![]()
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