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The Risen Empire

by Scott Westerfeld

An immortal empire meets enemies who worship planet-sized minds.

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About The Risen Empire

The undead Emperor rules eighty human worlds by granting elite immortality, while the machine-augmented Rix seek to replace him with AI compound minds. When the Child Empress is taken hostage, Captain Laurent Zai and Senator Nara Oxham are pulled into a crisis that could decide the empire’s fate.

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Spice
Light
Darkness
Balanced
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Balanced

Series

Succession · Book 1 of 2

Content warnings
  • war
  • death
  • suicide
  • kidnapping

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