Scott Westerfeld · 2003 · Novel
Setting: far future
Series: Succession — #1
The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: Imperialism in fictionImmortalism in fictionFictionImperialismHostagesLife on other planetsImmortalismLife on other planets in fictionHostages in fictionScience fiction
isfdb_id: 23644
openlibrary_id: OL547165W
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