01978cam a2200385 i 4500 540167636 TxAuBib 20211203120000.0 170718s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017285139 9780765388889 hardcover 076538888X hardcover (OCoLC)947145729 TxAuBib rda Scalzi, John, 1969- The collapsing empire / John Scalzi. First edition. New York : Tor, 2017. 333 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Interdependency ; 1 "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the empire's rulers, a system of control. But when it's discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency must race to find out what can be salvaged from an empire on the brink of collapse. -- Adapted from book jacket. 20211203. Space and time Fiction. Interplanetary voyages Fiction. Life on other planets Fiction. Science Fiction. Space opera Fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Military Fiction. Interdependency ; 1.