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. Herd is a single warrior against an Imperial army, but moving silently behind her is the intelligence of an entire planet. 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. 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. 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. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. Now he comes through with the dazzling payoff in book two of S uccession, The Killing of Worlds.Ĭaptain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, reached new heights of excitement in last spring's T he Risen Empire, and left readers begging for more.
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