Empress of Forever
Max Gladstone
3.81 · 16 ratings · Published: 18 Jun 2019
A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she's trying to outrun those who are trying to steal her success.
In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine.
The end of time is ruled by an ancient, powerful Empress who blesses or blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally impossible to consider--until Vivian arrives. Trapped between the Pride, a ravening horde of sentient machines, and a fanatical sect of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith, Viv must rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a way back to the world and life she left behind.
A magnificent work of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action, Empress of Forever is a feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks and William Gibson.
- sc-fi 4
- lgbtq+ 3
- space 3
- space opera 3
- time travel 3
- dystopia 3
- women loving women 2
- aliens 2
- found family 2
- action / adventure 2
- cyberpunk 2
- distant future 2
- mystery 2
- war/big battles 1
- female mc 1
- portal travel 1
- epic 1
- romantic love 1
- futuristic 1
- military, war & conflict 1
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- audiobook 3
- book 1
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