The Killing of Worlds

By Scott Westerfeld

Subjects: Science fiction, Life on other planets in fiction, Imperialism in fiction, Immortalism, Space ships in fiction, Life on other planets, Space ships, Imperialism, Immortalism in fiction, Fiction, Immortality, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Space vehicles

Description: "Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate faces a suicied mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover, Senaotr Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. The Emperor has a terrible secret, a secret Nara is in danger of finding out, a secret for which he would countenance the killing of worlds"--Back cover.