General Information
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 Title:                  The Risen Empire
 Author:                 Scott Westerfeld
 Read By:                Steve Douglas-Craig
 Genre:                  Audiobook - Fiction
 Series Name:            Succession
 Position in Series:     1
 Abridged:               No

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Book Description
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The emperor, surrounded by his elite of those chosen to become undead, 
has ruled for 1,600 years, and the empire has become decadent, with 
the gap between the living and the Risen growing apace. Then the Rix 
computer-augmented humans who revere planetary AI kidnap the child empress 
on her own planet, Legis XV. Not only does this threaten the emperor's 
great secret, it is the furthest incursion into imperial space that 
the Rix have yet made. Captain Laurent Zai is charged to effect the 
empress' rescue, a dangerous, almost impossible task. Meanwhile, the 
woman he loves, a senator of the Secularist Party of the living and 
against the Risen, is enmeshed in the political consequences of the 
Rix invasion and the preparation for war. It doesn't take long for the 
Legis XV computers to become a compound mind a la the Rix and fight 
for survival, too. Westerfeld manages the action impeccably, and he 
leaves threads of plot hanging for a grand space-opera finale in a promised 
sequel.