![]() ![]() The few seemingly interesting bits, a kidnapping of a noble, a saboteur aboard a spaceship, an assassination attempt, are resolved so quickly they lose all sense of drama. It’s economics, politics, and endless dialogue had me waiting for something interesting to happen. ![]() The first half of the novel is mostly concerned with the one habitable world at the ass-end of the empire, End. The problem is the Flow is starting to shift, cutting off entire stations and worlds from one another, bringing an end to the empire. The empire exists in a medieval caste system, with powerful noble families ruling over everyone, and the admittedly cool-named Emperox at the top. The Interdependency is a human-only empire that long since left our fledgling galaxy via the Flow, a series of connected space-highways that allow for relatively short travel over vast distances of space. Conversely, The Collapsing Empire is mostly just boring. The Old Man’s War series was full of fun sci-fi ideas, with the backdrop of an exciting intergalactic war. I’m glad The Collapsing Empire was not the first Scalzi book I read, as I may have written him off entirely. ![]()
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