The Last Emperox
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4.2 • 45 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
The Last Emperox is the explosive conclusion to John Scalzi’s Interdependency series.
Can they escape the end of an empire?
Entire star systems, and billions of people, are about to be stranded. The pathways that link the stars are collapsing faster than anyone expected, accelerating the fall of civilization. But though the evidence is insurmountable, many are in denial. And some even attempt to profit from the final days of this golden age.
Emperox Grayland II has wrested control of the empire from her enemies. But even as she works to save her people, others seek power. And they will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne. Grayland and her depleted allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves and humanity – yet it still may not be enough.
Will Grayland become the saviour of her civilization . . . or the last emperox to wear the crown?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hugo Award winner Scalzi knocks it out of the park with the tightly plotted, deeply satisfying conclusion to his Interdependency Sequence space opera trilogy (after The Consuming Fire). The Flow streams, trade routes that connect the planets governed under the Interdependency, face an imminent collapse that will leave every world but the small planet End isolated and cause countless deaths. Emperox Grayland II works to thwart coup attempts long enough for her lover, physicist Marce Claremont, to work out how to save the population from this impending disaster. Meanwhile, Grayland's enemy Nadashe Nohamapetan consolidates her control of End while promising disgruntled, powerful noble families exclusive access to the planet in exchange for their political support. Scalzi allows the flaws, foibles, and core personalities of the returning characters careful Grayson, ruthless Nadashe, and especially foul-mouthed mercenary Kiva Lagos to steer the story, and his careful, long-game planning allows for pitch-perfect pacing that will keep readers energized from start to finish. Balancing existing character dynamics and surprising but well-earned reveals with interstellar politics and pressing ethical questions of sustainability and power, Scalzi sends his series out with a bang.
Customer Reviews
The Last Emperox
An utterly satisfying, but sad, but joyous ending to the trilogy. That sentence doesn’t really do this book justice but being so invested in this story like I am and the skill of the author’s words, the book truly grabbed all of my emotions and chucked them swirling around an event horizon.
This book will grab you by the nuts, and pull you along like Lady Kiva herself was doing it. Outstanding.
Disappointing.
Way too much waffling, uneducated philosophy mixed with pseudoscience and about a third of the text going through backstory - mostly covering what we learned from the two prior novels. Not much journey. This should have been a short or possibly a novella. It feels to me like the publishers pushed the author into an unwilling novel.
Frankly, I was disappointed.