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THE RISEN EMPIRE


From the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polytnorph, and Evolution's Darling (Philip K.
Dick Award special citation and a New York Times Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic,
The Risen Empire, Scott Wesferfeld's dazzling hardcover debut.
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, creating an
elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child
Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. No one can touch
them.
Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI
compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix ore cool, relentless fanatics, and their only
goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means
necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one and supplant it with an eternal
cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage.
Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.
Separated by light-years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara
Oxham must each, in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, as they hold the fate of
the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the
twenty-first century.



SCOTT WESTERFELD is a software designer, a composer of musk for modern dance
whose works heave been performed both here and abroad, and the author of three
previous novels. He lives in New York City and Sydney, Australia.
 THE RISEN EMPIRE

BOOK ONE OF SUCCESSION


SCOTT WESTERFELD


TOR

A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK
 This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are
either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
THE RISEN EMPIRE
Copyright © 2003 by Scott Westerfeld.
Edited by David G. Hartwell.
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