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Empress of Forever

By: Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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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 seeks to outrun people who are trying to steal her success.

In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, she sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, she 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 Liao 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.

©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

Critic Reviews

“A classic space opera that impossibly becomes a thrilling dungeon crawl fantasy through a universe we’ve never seen before. So smart it makes me jealous.” (Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times best-selling author)
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I loved it. Like a Saturday morning cartoon, a Space Opera fever dream, an overdose of glee that I'd happily bliss my way to eternity on. It's also very gay.

Inject it into my veins!

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Everything there is to love about sci-fi, bound together by fantastic characters and a plot that never lets you go. The new standard I’ll be measuring future sci-fi reads against.

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