Empress of Forever

Name: Empress of Forever
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Max Gladstone
ISBN: 9781666572230

Author: Max Gladstone

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 19 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/18/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success. In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, she sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, she is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine. The end of time is ruled by an ancient, powerful Empress who blesses or blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally impossible to consider--until Vivian Liao arrives. Trapped between the Pride—a ravening horde of sentient machines—and a fanatical sect of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith, Viv must rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a way back to the world and life she left behind.

About Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone is a fencer, a fiddler, and a two-time finalist for the John W. Campbell Award. He is fluent in Mandarin and has taught English in China. He is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated Craft Sequence of novels, a game developer, and the showrunner for the fiction serial Bookburners. A graduate of Yale, he lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts.

About Natalie Naudus

Natalie Naudus is an award-winning audiobook narrator. After receiving her master’s in music from the University of North Texas, she went on to become an opera singer. She has a passion for stories and characters and excels at unique character voices and passionate storytelling. She currently resides with her husband and two daughters on a mountaintop in Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrik

Praise-worthy imagination and world-building, but sadly, it’s time to admit that Max Gladstone’s books aren’t suitable for me. Empress of Forever has been on my TBR ever since I first heard about it. Judging from the blurb alone, I was immediately intrigued. Just read the blurb, seriously, it sounds......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Max Gladstone is one of my favorite writers. His imagination is a thing of wonder, and his worldbuilding continuously blows me away. This book was no exception. I saw someone describe this as a "gonzo Guardians of the Galaxy" and that's totally fair. It's a space adventure with a rag tag crew of mis......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

First things first: I had a great time. As in, this is a goofy, fast-paced, unabashedly hard-SF, galaxy-spanning space-opera mania that mixes cloud-computing universe-spanning quantum-computing with the afterlife, instant travel, world-eating gods, cyborgs, huge space battles, and a HUGE baddie in t......more

Goodreads review by Django

Do I get to write the first review? It's amazing!......more