Succession

Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, follows The Risen Empire with the next thrilling space opera in Succession, the Killing of Worlds.Cut off by an

From Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of the Leviathan trilogy and the Uglies series comes a sweeping space opera, The Risen Empire, book one of the Succession duology. Captain Laurent Zai and his pacifist lover Senator Nara Oxham, separated by lightyears, hold the fate of the empire in theirhands. They serve an Emperor who has reigned with his sister the Child Empress for sixteen hundred years as living gods.But even gods might bow to the fanaticism of the Rix, machine-augmented humans, who long for the cybernetic rule of a vast AI.Only one immortal dynasty can prevail.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Westerfeld continues one of the first great space operas of this centuryScott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, rea

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, come