before this year , John Scalzi announced that his next leger would be coming out in 2017 , and now we last know what it is : a steel raw space opera house call The Collapsing Empire .
Scalzi is credibly well love for his military SF series , Old Man ’s War , where the Colonial Defense Force worked to ensure a safe footing amongst the few habitable planet in the galaxy . This new al-Qur’an is n’t connect to that series at all : it ’s a totally newfangled macrocosm , and that ’s pretty exciting . Here ’s the plot description :
Our universe is rule by physics and quicker than calorie-free travel is not potential — until the discovery of The Flow , an extra - dimensional field we can access at certain points in quad - time that transfer us to other worlds , other stars .
world flow away from Earth , into distance , and in time block our home domain and creates a new conglomerate , the Interdependency , whose ethos requires that no one human outstation can subsist 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 electrostatic . Just as a river change line , The Flow change as well , cutting off worlds from the rest of humankind . When it ’s discovered that The Flow is moving , possibly cutting off every human world from faster than light travel forever , three individual — a scientist , a spaceship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency — are in a airstream against time to discover what , if anything , can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the verge of collapse .
What really receive us excited for this book is that Scalzi has a retentive track record with creating fresh populace , and he take down that this will be the first of a brand newfangled series , and the first novel in his major,13 book deal with Tor .
With the success of Scalzi ’s OMW universe ( which he ’s taking a foramen from after the appropriately namedThe close of All thing ) , it ’s outstanding to see him building an whole new macrocosm . This may be his bighearted talent as a writter ; in plus to Old Man ’s War and its sequels , his novel Fuzzy Nation was a fun , universe that felt really fleshed out . This young serial has the looking at of a huge sandbox for him to play with , with some befittingly eminent bet .
We have a bit of time before we get to see how this turns out — the rule book is slated for sack in March 2017 .
[ Tor.com ]
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