A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she's trying to outrun those who are trying to steal her success.
In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine.
The end of time is ruled by an ancient, powerful Empress who blesses or blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally impossible to consider - until Vivian arrives. Trapped between the Pride, a ravening horde of sentient machines, and a fanatical sect of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith, Viv must rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a way back to the world and life she left behind.
A magnificent work of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action, Empress of Forever is a feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks and William Gibson.
I am not sure how a book that sounds 100% like it should be My Thing ended up being so boring. But it was boring! I can usually pinpoint what makes me dislike a book, but I can't figure out what made it not work. It was really, really long and I kept hitting points where I thought, "Oh, this is interesting, maybe it will pick up now" and then...nope. It seems like a lot of 1- and 2- star ratings on here are from people who didn't finish the book - and I can't blame them, because like I said, it is really, really long - so I wanted to try to see if finishing it made it all worth the while. It didn't.
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