The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)

by John Scalzi

Kiva had pulled out a save, and that was something she could use at home.

The Duke of End never told Ghreni Nohamapetan to ask the Count of Claremont to release imperial funds. And he certainly never authorized Ghreni to fucking kidnap one of the count’s children and hold him for ransom. He did both of those things on his own.

what is the rest of your fucking family planning, too?

Imperial Guard head Sir Hibert Limbar.

Naffa-shaped

Archbishop Korbijn,

Gell ...

Amit Noham...

our analysts presumed that any retaliation would be focused on imperial interests on End, not here.

True? Of false flag?

“How long were the coronation celebrations going to last?” “Five days, ma’am,” Gell Deng said. “We’re in a period of mourning for five days, then,”

She looked at him and saw the unremarkable face and unremarkable body and behind both, the reportedly unremarkable mind happiest in the pursuit of unremarkable pleasures.

Ouch. Damned with faint faintness.

Haha

“You don’t even know me,” Cardenia said. “With respect, ma’am, I disagree.

If I know nothing else, ma’am, I know that you are worth being loyal to.”

“He thought their ambition was admirable.

as a couple their ambitions were in accord, and that then the Nohamapetans would have a reason to act with less stupidity.

Haha

Naffa’s parents are republicans,

eventually every emperox tells me they are alone.” “Every emperox?” “Yes.”

“The Prophet

Rachela I.”

Whether those things come true isn’t one way or another about it.”

Haha true.

when we designed the church, we intentionally made the divine aspect of it as ambiguous as possible.

Haha true

Since I believe in those precepts, I believe in the mission of the church.

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

Haha

Haha

“The short version is ‘Yes, but.’

The slightly longer version is ‘No, and.’

“Tell me everything,” she said.

Marce Claremont

Vrenna

“Go tell the emperox everything. Save everyone if you can. And then come back.”

Petty Officer Gtan Ndan.”

the beanstalk,

“Push field,”

Fake hard sci-fi.

“An open planet is no place for humans.

Haha.

Sjo Tinnuin.

Tell Me Another One.

Yes...

Haha sweet. Where’s Giggy the stuffed pig? Sorry to lose him.

Tomi Blinnikka

Kiva.

Nubt Pinton.

“Stupid pirates.”

Plus, weapons are de rigueur for space opera. Haha

If we plan to outrun them, we do it as late as possible, and when they’re close enough for us to target

Haha