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Killing of Worlds, The

By: Tor Books

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Tor Books)

Last Stocked on 6/6/2021

Product Info

Title
Killing of Worlds, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Scott Westerfield
Publish Year
2003
Pages
336
Dimensions
6.5x9.75x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147820626
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

One hero can't stop the tide of barbarians unless he has his own culture supporting him. To save Duisberg, Abel must conquer the very land of his origin and attempt to destroy the computer A.I. “god” who has doomed his world to an everlasting Dark Age. Abel is a heretic, but now he must go beyond and become—THE SAVIOR.
Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of "Fine Prey, Polymorph, "and "Evolution's Darling," reached new heights of excitement in last spring's “The Risen Empire," and left readers begging for more. Now he comes through with the dazzling payoff in book two of “Succession, The Killing of Worlds." Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. The Lynx must stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis, a suicide mission that will almost certainly end in oblivion for Captain Zai and his crew. On the planet Legis below, a Rix compound mind--a massive emergent AI formed from every computer on the planet--as been isolated by their Imperial blockade. But the mind has guided a lone Rix commando, Herd, to the planet's frozen north, and will soon order a desperate attempt to seize a polar communications array and break the blockade. Herd is a single warrior against an Imperial army, but moving silently behind her is the intelligence of an entire planet. Ten light-years away, Captain Zai's true love, the psychic (some say mad) Senator Nara Oxham is engaged in a deadly game of political intrigue. From her position on the Emperor's War Council, Senator Oxham must find a way to forestall the Emperor's final solution if the blockade is broken: a nuclear strike to destroy the compound mind, which will also kill millions of Imperial citizens. She suspects that the Emperor has a hidden weakness discovered, by the mind, a secret so dangerous to his immortal dynasty that to prevent its discovery the Emperor is willing to countenance the ultimate crime… The killing of worlds. With this powerful conclusion to the first story arc of "Succession," Scott Westerfeld confirms his stature as one of the leading writers of high space opera.