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The Risen Empire

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Zusatztext Ingenious enough to call to mind Iain M. Banks Informationen zum Autor Scott Westerfeld is a software designer, composer and the author of the bestselling Pretties and Uglies series. He lives in New York and Sydney. Klappentext A cutting-edge space opera in which galactic cultures clash: human! inhuman and post-human A cutting-edge space opera in which galactic cultures clash: human, inhuman and post-human Zusammenfassung The undead Emperor has ruled the Eighty Worlds for sixteen hundred years. His is the power to grant immortality to those he deems worthy, creating an elite class known as the Risen. Along with his sister, the eternally young Child Empress, his power within the empire has been absolute. Until now. The empire's great enemies, the Rix, hold the Child Empress hostage. Charged with her rescue is Captain Laurent Zai. But when Imperial politics are involved the stakes are unimaginably high, and Zai may yet find the Rix the least of his problems. On the homeworld, Zai's lover, Senator Nara Oxham, newly appointed to the Emperor's War Council, must prosecute the war with the Rix while holding the inhuman impulses of the Risen councillors in check. If she fails at either task, millions will die. And at the centre of everything is the Emperor's great lie: a revelation so shattering that he is willing to sanction the death of entire worlds to keep it secret ...

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Authors Scott Westerfeld
Publisher Orbit
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 19.01.2006
 
EAN 9781841493725
ISBN 978-1-84149-372-5
No. of pages 720
Dimensions 113 mm x 178 mm x 35 mm
Series Orbit Paperbacks
Subject Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy

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