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#TheKillingOfWorlds The Killing of Worlds
The Killing of Worlds is a science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld.The events detailed below immediately follow those of the novel The Risen Empire.Imperial Captain Laurent Zai is sent on a suicide mission to defeat an incursion by the Rix, a Read More..
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Description The Killing of Worlds is a science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld.The events detailed below immediately follow those of the novel The Risen Empire.Imperial Captain Laurent Zai is sent on a suicide mission to defeat an incursion by the Rix, a space-faring nation who worship planet-sized artificial intelligences (AIs). The planet he is protecting from the Rix is home to a newly emergent AI named Alexander, which the local population is helpless to remove. Although severely outclassed, and in spite of deadly mutineers, Captain Zai is successful in destroying his Rix opponent; he also discovers that the Rix ship was shielding and transporting a vast swarm of silicon particles.Alexander uses the help of a surviving Rix commando and her Imperial lover to project his consciousness into space, inhabiting the silicon particles as an independent entity. Although political guardians on Captain Zai's ship try to prevent it, he makes peaceful contact with both Alexander and with the Rix commando. From them, he learns the greatest secret of his Emperor; the Emperor's claim that he can revive people from death and give them an eternal post-life is false. In fact, the Emperor's 'symbiont' technology gives a semblance of life after death, but not the eternal life that is promised.Laurent Zai's empathic lover is Senator Nara Oxham, a woman who is elevated to the Emperor's war cabinet. She discovers that the Emperor has assigned Zai a suicidal mission, and that the Emperor intends to destroy the AI by destroying the planet which Laurent Zai is protecting. Another member of the war cabinet, a member of the plague axis, warns her that the paranoia of the Empire is leading them all into genetic inviability. When the Nara warns Zai of his danger, she is arrested for treason. Immediately before her trial, Laurent shares the Emperor's secret, and she exposes his story to the entire population.
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Name The Killing of Worlds
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Authors Scott Westerfeld
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Genre Hard Science Fiction
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Pages 336 pp
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Isbn 978-0-7653-0850-4
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Publisher Macmillan Books
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Pub_date 2003
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