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From the acclaimed #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Evolution's Darling" (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a "New York Times" notable book) and "Uglies," "Pretties," and "Specials," comes a sweeping epic. "The" "Risen Empire" is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century.
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      New: New 0765319985 From Publishers Weekly Westerfeld's (Evolution's Darling) exceptionally smart and empathetic novel, the first of two in a series, confirms the buzz that space opera is one of the most exciting branches of current SF. In an interstellar empire of 80 human worlds, ruled by an emperor who lets selected humans cheat death, tensions between most humans and the resurrected elite, aka the Risen, are increasing. The Rix, a cult of cyborgs who worship compound AI minds, hunger to liberate the empire's worlds from mere human control. When a Rix raiding party captures the emperor's sister, Capt. Laurent Zai of the Imperial Navy must save her. Viewpoint rapidly shifts from character to character and from a vast perspective to an extremely small one-that of the intelligence scouts Zai sends ahead of the rescue mission, nano-machines smaller than insects. Keeping the reader constantly off-balance, Westerfeld skillfully integrates extreme technologies with human characters. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist The emperor, surrounded by his elite of those chosen to become undead, has ruled for 1, 600 years, and the empire has become decadent, with the gap between the living and the Risen growing apace. Then the Rix--computer-augmented humans who revere planetary AI--kidnap the child empress on her own planet, Legis XV. Not only does this threaten the emperor's great secret, it is the furthest incursion into imperial space that the Rix have yet made. Captain Laurent Zai is charged to effect the empress' rescue--a dangerous, almost impossible task. Meanwhile, the woman he loves, a senator of the Secularist Party of the living and against the Risen, is enmeshed in the political consequences of the Rix invasion and the preparation for war. It doesn't take long for the Legis XV computers to become a compound mind a la the Rix and fight for survival, too. Westerfeld manages...
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      From the acclaimed #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Evolution's Darling" (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a "New York Times" notable book) and "Uglies," "Pretties," and "Specials," comes a sweeping epic. "The" "Risen Empire" is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century.
      The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods.
      The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size. Cool, relentless fanatics, their only goal is to propagate such AIs. They seek to end the Emperor's prolonged rule, and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.
      Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must both face the challenge of the Rix, and both will hold the fate of the empire in their hands.


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      • Media: Paperback Book, 349 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Tor Books (Jul. 31st, 2008)
      • ISBN-10: 0765319985
      • ISBN-13: 9780765319982
      • Dimensions: 5.66 x 7.96 x 0.81 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 0.74 lbs
      • Categories: Space Opera Science Fiction

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