Book: The Collapsing Empire
Author: John Scalzi
Pages: 336
This is my 38th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humaity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and, for the empire's rulers, a system of control. The Flow is eternal - but it's not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. When it's discovered that the entire Flor is moving, possibly separating all human world's from one another forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency - must race against time to discover what, it anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.
This was a great book. I am a Scalzi fan, no doubt, but I was worried this one might be too heavy on the Sci Fi. It was not. It was not a complicated read, had a cheeky character, and a clever story. The characters are well developed, and the story flowed well. I was kept on the edge of my seat once the main "problem" was brought to the front of the story, and read late into the night to see where it was going. This is the first book of a trilogy, but I did feel that it wrapped up well. Not a big cliff hanger that would make you feel like you would need to continue if you didn't want to. Easily a stand alone for those who are looking for a good story, but not a contiuing one.
Stars: 4.5
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