Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must both face the challenge of the Rix, and both will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. They seek to end the Emperor's prolonged rule, and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty. Cool, relentless fanatics, their only goal is to propagate such AIs. The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century. Dick Award special citation and a New York Times notable book) and Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, comes a sweeping epic. From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Evolution's Darling (Philip K.
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