The release date for the English version of 'The Last Emperox' by
John Scalzi is Apr 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Interdependency's intergalactic conduit between its worlds, The Flow, is collapsing faster than ever. Billions of individuals and entire star systems are being cut off from the rest of human civilization. Scientific predictions predicted this collapse. Nevertheless, despite the overwhelming and evident evidence, many continue to attempt to justify, postpone, and profit from these latter days of one of the biggest empires in human history.
Finally, those who oppose Emperox Grayland II and deny the truth of this collapse have lost control of her empire. However, "control" is a slippery concept, and the forces opposing Grayland's rule will make a last, desperate attempt to remove her from her throne and authority by whatever means necessary, even as she works to save as many of her people from a life of poverty and isolation as possible. Grayland and her dwindling coalition of supporters need to employ every resource at their disposal to preserve both herself and humankind as a whole. However, it might not be sufficient.
Will Grayland turn out to be her civilization's savior? or the final exemplar to don the throne?