The Collapsing Empire

"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." Joe Hill, author of The Fireman

Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossibleuntil the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars.

Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar warand, for the empire's rulers, a system of control.

The Flow is eternalbut it's not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. When it's discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever,...