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The Collapsing Empire
- The Interdependency, Book 1
- Gesprochen von: Wil Wheaton
- Serie: The Interdependency, Titel 1
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- Kategorien: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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2018 Locus Award, Best Science Fiction Novel
Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars.
Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. When it's discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster-than-light travel forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain, and the empress of the Interdependency - are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.
Kritikerstimmen
"Fans of Game of Thrones and Dune will enjoy this bawdy, brutal, and brilliant political adventure." (Booklist)
"Scalzi has constructed a thrilling novel so in tune with the flow of politics that it would feel relevant at almost any time." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Political plotting, plenty of snark, puzzle-solving, and a healthy dose of action…Scalzi continues to be almost insufferably good at his brand of fun but think-y sci-fi adventure." (Kirkus Reviews)
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Hell
For me, this book nearly was torture. Only the great reader made it barely tolerable.
The basic setting of the story I found intriguing, but the actual writing by the author is very far subpar. I don't care if the story is heavy on background and politics, but in that case it should be somewhat coherent.
When all the plots are so simpleminded that an average 10 year old sees right through them, but the protagonists don't, it gets hard to endure.
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- shaun
- 28.07.2020
Why Wil Wheaton? He's a terrible reader.
The story is amazing, like any other book by Scalzi but OMG!!!! Why with Wheaton!!!!!! ? Terrifying how he takes all the immersion in a book out the window, he's voice doesn't have any colours and it was super annoying to have to bare with it because of the story.
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- 02.07.2020
Good stuff!
Really good novel and fantastic reading by Wil Wheaton. I enjoyed the characters a lot and the story got me hooked right away. Wheaton gave it life!
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- 16.05.2020
Nice story, great narrator
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Endet mit Cliffhanger
. . was ja an sich nicht so schlimm wäre, doch es ist eine angebrochene Geschichte, die überraschend mitten drin endet - kein Buch, sondern ein Stück Serie, das einfach abrupt endet.
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