And then we have our soft boi the Physicist’s son. Some of the shit she says is hysterical and perfect. She is brilliant and also has a foul mouth. I especially love the merchant heiress (Sober Sam forgot to write the character’s names so here we are, drunk and can’t remember). The universe is literally collapsing and we’re all laughing.Ĭharacters: I love them all equally, even the enemies. I just love Scalzi and how he writes his books. I found myself audibly laughing at some of the dialogue in this so much. Will Wheaton is the audio narrator and he did a fab job. Spoiler-free Thoughts: I loved this so much. Basically, lots of political machinations and mystery and I loved it. And the heir to a merchant powerhouseand has the foulest mouth ever.

A Flow Physicist’s son, who’s dad figured out The Flow is dying. One is the newly crowned Empero (emperoess?), who knows this is coming and is trying to anticipate it. Anywho, we’ve got lots of POVs all circulating around this problem. Turns out, The Flow is dying and is gonna die, leaving humans stranded on these planets and its not gonna be pretty.

They can do this becaue of this mysterious travelling function called The Flow (I read it like The Claw from Toy Story lol). Spoiler-free Overview: This is a space opera set in the future where humans have… sort of… colonized on other planets. We were all prepping for Booziebookathon tonight and whoops, drank a bunch of wine /shrug emoji/ What I drank prior: At least a whole bottle of wine. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency - are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. It’s a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man’s War. We’d like to thank John and Tor Books for the opportunity** **We received a free finished copy of this from ALA.

John scalzi the interdependency