5/13/2023 0 Comments The collapsing empire seriesI’m not saying that you’ll fully understand each and every family in the Interdependency, but you honestly don’t need to. There are more complex systems beyond the nature of the Flow at work in Collapsing Empire, but those get slightly more explanation. The narrator actually acknowledges lots of things in-text, and it helps keep things snappy and moving right along. In fact, the narrator acknowledges this in the text. I don’t mean tight in the sense of “cool,” if anyone actually uses tight that way anymore anyway, but I do mean it in the sense of “there’s not a lot of room here.” Scalzi, however, seems to know this, and he doesn’t waste pages trying to explain the complexity of the Flow, a series of paths that connect the far-flung pieces of the Interdependency, the aforementioned space empire. I’ll get to that more later, but I give the book a very solid 4/5 stars. However, this relatively small page count actually works to the benefit of The Collapsing Empire on the whole. No, not the epilogue, the acknowledgements. Anyway, Empire isn’t really that big, and it really isn’t that thick, either. No matter what the saying says, we all do it. I’m not talking about the first pages, but I’m about to judge a book by its cover. On first impression, John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire doesn’t look like much. By Cheryl Wassenaar 6 years ago John Scalzi’s latest, The Collapsing Empire, is a fast-paced and clever take on the garden variety space empire, and we look forward to more.
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