Since this network of wormhole-like space tunnels is the only thing that allows humans to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other, and since each planet of the Interdependency is reliant on all the others for resources and trade, this collapse is a civilization-level crisis. All of them, in separate ways, end up confronted by the same problem: The Flow is collapsing. Rounding out the trio is Marce Claremont, a physicist destined to continue his father’s important work of studying The Flow. The abrupt ending was also jarring, coming right as the story was picking up steam.
His debut Old Mans War won him the John W. (The Collapsing Empire) entertaining, if uneven too reliant on long passages of exposition, overly plot-centered and heavy on oration. JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular SF authors of his generation. Then there’s Kiva Lagos, a foul-mouthed merchant heiress whose constant displeasure with everyone on her spaceship allows Scalzi to write F-words to his heart’s content anytime she’s on the page. John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent. First is Cardenia Wu-Patrick, a relatively normal woman who nevertheless finds herself crowned Emperox of the Interdependency, a wide-spanning galactic empire connected by a complex space travel network called The Flow.
Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. Its a hedge against interstellar warand, for the empires rulers, a system of control. The book focuses on three characters in particular, and shifts between their perspectives. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others.
It is true, though, that the characters who populate The Collapsing Empire face a political crisis so massive it forces them to re-examine their worldviews.
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