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Books Read in 2018 (79) Books Read in 2020 (184) » 11 more Books Read in 2019 (573) Books Read in 2017 (2,185) Female Protagonist (526) ALA The Reading List (230) No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() Unlike many of the Kindle Unlimited items I've read lately, this was enjoyable. A humorous, soft-scifi story with just a bit of action. It's very much a "first book" in a series in that it doesn't resolve anything. It's all build-up and setting the stage for later, ending on a note of suspense. That's not to say it has a cliffhanger ending because nobody is actually in the midst of falling to their death, but no thread of the story ... action, romantic, social, whatever ... is resolved. That's good; I think cliffhanger endings are signs of author laziness and/or insecurity. There are some good characters with which to work in later volumes. Some are a bit caricature-like, notably Kiva, but you can roll your eyes and enjoy them, nonetheless. Somebody else mentioned H. Beam Piper and, yeah, I can sorta see that.
Scalzi continues to be almost insufferably good at his brand of fun but think-y sci-fi adventure. Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesAwardsNotable Lists
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, humanity 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. But when it's discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency must race to find out what can be salvaged from an empire on the brink of collapse. -- No library descriptions found.
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