General Information

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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Total Duration:         9:49:42
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Book Description

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.