[Indir] (PDF) The Collapsing Empire
By John Scalzi
The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo
Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's
War.Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until
the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points
in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows
away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new
empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can
survive without the others. It?s a hedge against interstellar war -- and a system of
control for the rulers of the empire.The Flow is eternal -- but it is not static. Just as a
river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of
humanity. When it?s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all
human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals --
