The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)

by John Scalzi

The mutineers would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for the collapse of the Flow.

Then there is the way that mutinies actually happen, involving weapons, violence, sudden death, the officer ranks turning on each other like animals, the crew trying to figure out what the fuck is going on.

“Well, I had the thing, and it wasn’t a vision. It was a dream.” “It was a dream that made you think. A dream that caused you to search for wisdom. A dream that made you consult me, the Prophet. Sounds like a vision to me.”

worked in marketing,” Rachela I said. “Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn’t call it that after that point.”