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Westerfeld's (Evolution's Darling) exceptionally smart and empathetic novel, the first of two in a series, confirms the buzz that space opera is one of the most exciting branches of current SF. In an interstellar empire of 80 human worlds, ruled by an emperor who lets selected humans cheat death, tensions between most humans and the resurrected elite, aka the Risen, are increasing. The Rix, a cult of cyborgs who worship compound AI minds, hunger to liberate the empire's worlds from mere human control. When a Rix raiding party captures the emperor's sister, Capt. Laurent Zai of the Imperial Navy must save her. Viewpoint rapidly shifts from character to character and from a vast perspective to an extremely small one-that of the intelligence scouts Zai sends ahead of the rescue mission, nano-machines smaller than insects. Keeping the reader constantly off-balance, Westerfeld skillfully integrates extreme technologies with human characters.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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The emperor, surrounded by his elite of those chosen to become undead, has ruled for 1,600 years, and the empire has become decadent, with the gap between the living and the Risen growing apace. Then the Rix--computer-augmented humans who revere planetary AI--kidnap the child empress on her own planet, Legis XV. Not only does this threaten the emperor's great secret, it is the furthest incursion into imperial space that the Rix have yet made. Captain Laurent Zai is charged to effect the empress' rescue--a dangerous, almost impossible task. Meanwhile, the woman he loves, a senator of the Secularist Party of the living and against the Risen, is enmeshed in the political consequences of the Rix invasion and the preparation for war. It doesn't take long for the Legis XV computers to become a compound mind a la the Rix and fight for survival, too. Westerfeld manages the action impeccably, and he leaves threads of plot hanging for a grand space-opera finale in a promised sequel. Regina Schroeder
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Space Opera's finest, Juil 29 2006
Par Loki Xombi "Nox" (Alberta, ED Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Risen Empire (Mass Market Paperback)
The Risen Empire is one of the best sci-fi novels around. In the far future, human beings have colonized 80 worlds across space, and are ruled over by an imortal. The Emperor of this future realm has ruled for over 1600 years after discovering a way to raise the newly dead so that they may live and serve him forever.
The Empire has been at war for decades with an all-female race of humans called the Rix. These Rix are cyberneticly enhanced cultists who worship planetary A.I's. The Rix have taken it upon themselves to spread these A.I's to the worlds controlled by the Risen Empire, which would in-turn, change the Empires worlds into giant living minds.
The main character in this novel is Laurent Zai, Captain of the new attack frigate Lynx. His mission is to head to the Planet Legis 8 and rescue the Child-Like Empress who has been kidnapped by a Rix commando team.

Needless to say, this book is amazing. Read it if you want something fresh and mind-blowing.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A great sci-fi high-tech/space opera!, Jui 12 2004
This book almost stands alone due to the fact that it combines everything true sci-fi fans love in books from the super high tech bordering on the cyberpunk, to the very tense and very human element regarding the struggles of some of the greatest space operas of our time. It definitely ranks with "Foundation", "Ringworld", "Childhood's End", "I,Robot", "2010", "Rendezvous with Rama", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Neuromancer", "Virtual Light", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", "Snow Crash", "Cyber Hunter" and many more. Great read!
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Half a story does not good value make., Avril 2 2004
Par Warren BONES (Sydney) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This book doesn't really stand out amongst it's peers, although it manages to hold its own up to a point. That point is in the middle of the story, which just happens to be the end of the book. This could not stand on its own under any circumstance. If it were 1500 pages, like Hamilton's Night's Dawn books, that might be excusable but as each of the first two books in this series are barely 300 pages, it seems that either the publisher and/or the author are taking advantage of the buying public. The most annoying aspect is that all the really good parts of this story are in the second book so my advice would be to skip this and go straight to KILLING OF WORLDS. It has enough of a brief in the prologue to get you up to speed.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Thought provoking -- interesting concepts
The Risen Empire is book one of Succession which concludes in The Killing of Worlds.

Scott Westerfeld has created a universe in which death, "The Old Enemy" has... Read more

Publié le Fév 11 2004 par Michael L. Dennis

5.0étoiles sur 5 Best Sci Fi I've read this year.
I loved it, but it ends on a cliffhanger. Fortunately the sequel was already out!

The Risen Empire (Succession) trilogy is built on the shoulders of Asimov's Foundation and... Read more

Publié le Janv. 17 2004 par 1phatcat

4.0étoiles sur 5 This book is one half of an excellent novel
As other reviewers have pointed out, "The Risen Empire" does not stand on its own as a novel. This book is really the first half of a two-volume novel the second volume of which... Read more
Publié le Janv. 16 2004

4.0étoiles sur 5 A fantastic first two-thirds of a book
I've been looking for a new sci-fi author and Scott Westerfeld is at least in the running after reading this; he has assembled a creative and unusual galaxy for his Succession... Read more
Publié le Janv. 2 2004 par Michael Neame

4.0étoiles sur 5 A great read!
A great read!

I truly enjoyed reading this It's a rarity these days to find an author capable of such good storytelling. Read more

Publié le Déc 18 2003 par PMurphy

5.0étoiles sur 5 Outstanding beginning
Risen Empire takes place in a well imagined distant future with fast paced action, an economy of words and well develped charecters. Read more
Publié le Nov. 30 2003 par Yethrib

5.0étoiles sur 5 New Space Opera
Scott Westerfeld is one of those really big, new talents that have re-invigorated the SF genre in recent years, along with authors like Iain Banks, Dan Simmons, Alastair Reynolds,... Read more
Publié le Nov. 27 2003 par Calibandar

3.0étoiles sur 5 promise almost fulfilled
For years, unless you liked true fantasy novels, the only science fiction writers capable of creating a "space opera" - a whole new world and world view - and capable of... Read more
Publié le Nov. 26 2003 par Daniel Finkelman

3.0étoiles sur 5 promise almost fulfilled
For years, unless you liked true fantasy novels, the only science fiction writers capable of creating a "space opera" - a whole new world and world view - and capable of... Read more
Publié le Nov. 26 2003 par Daniel Finkelman

2.0étoiles sur 5 How not to write a space opera
This book has a lot going for it. The writing is good, the characterization mostly believable, some of the postulated technological innovations intriguing in new directions... Read more
Publié le Oct. 2 2003 par Phil Stracchino

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