Empress of Forever

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by Max Gladstone


  “Gladstone has recklessly folded space and time in order to project a galaxy-sized adventure into this book-sized container. Take care when you open it.”

  —Howard Tayler, Hugo Award winner

  “Empress of Forever blasts through a vast sparkling cosmos, powered by myth and boundless imagination, crewed by characters you can’t help but love.”

  —Hannu Rajaniemi, author of The Quantum Thief

  “A fast-paced thrill ride and a breakneck epic that explores a wildly, boldly imagined universe, filled with awe and wonder.”

  —John Chu, Hugo Award-winning author

  “This is what ‘big’ science fiction is for—challenging ideas, spread over an epic canvas with a set of characters that are both fantastical and perfectly human (even the alien ones).”

  —Geoffrey Thorne, showrunner, Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest

  “A marriage of Star Wars, Iain M. Banks, Hannu Rajaniemi, and K. J. Bishop, but with more pop culture references.”

  —Joel Cunningham, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  MAX GLADSTONE is a fencer, a fiddler, and a two-time finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. 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. Max lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  Chapter 55

  Chapter 56

  Chapter 57

  Chapter 58

  Chapter 59

  Chapter 60

  Chapter 61

  Chapter 62

  Chapter 63

  Chapter 64

  Chapter 65

  Chapter 66

  Chapter 67

  Chapter 68

  Chapter 69

  Chapter 70

  Chapter 71

  Chapter 72

  Acknowledgments

  Also by Max Gladstone

  Praise

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  EMPRESS OF FOREVER

  Copyright © 2019 by Max Gladstone

  All rights reserved.

  Cover art by Tommy Arnold

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  The Library of Congress has catalogued the print edition as follows:

  Names: Gladstone, Max, author.

  Title: Empress of forever / Max Gladstone.

  Description: First Edition. | New York: Tor, 2019. | “A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018054087 | ISBN 9780765395818 (trade pbk.) | ISBN 9780765395832 (ebook)

  Subjects: | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.

  Classification: LCC PS3607.L343 E47 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

  LC record avilable at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054087

  eISBN 9780765395832

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  First Edition: June 2019

 

 

 


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