The Last Emperox

"John Scalzi’s Interdependency series gives us a vast galactic empire on the verge of chaos as the interstellar pathways it depends on have begun to collapse. In this last installment, Emperox Grayland II is trying desperately to save as many people as she can from a death of interstellar isolation, while dodging coup attempts from self-interested corporate goons. Scalzi has said that he didn’t intend the series to be quite as topical as it turned out to be: “Some of that was completely unintentional, it was just the pace of the story. But some of it was. I live in the world.”"