A tech genius and a savvy businesswoman, she’s ambitious, driven, and convinced that her way is the best way. Vivian Liao is a wildly successful inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur. It’s certainly just as complex and thought provoking, and it’s even faster, tighter, and more intense. He has to turn his pen to science fiction, and with his first novel-length foray, turn out something brain-meltingly excellent.Įmpress of Forever may, in fact, be an even better novel than any of his fantasies. It was nominated for one of the first Hugo Awards for Best Series, an honour that it fairly deserved. It’s not enough that his Craft Sequence series is a complex, twisty, delightfully playful and deeply thought provoking set of works that take on themes of power, the tension between progress and conservatism, social dynamics, colonialism, and social responsibility. Reviewing his Empress of Forever is a bloody intimidating undertaking, because it’s just that damn good.
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