Of course, we soon understand the connections, and over the course of the first book they come together. He’s an idealist, and a nerd, but he isn’t stupid.Īt the start, the plot feels somewhat fractured, because in the first book there are three different story lines. He is a scientist through and through, helping his father unravel the flow and the dangers that are to come. He grew up at the ass-end of nowhere, with his father the Count of End. She swears a lot, is promiscuous, but somewhere inside her is a core of good that her peers among the Interdependency royalty lack.Īnd finally, there’s Marce. She’s somewhere far enough down the line of succession that she can wield influence, but she is by no means in charge. Kiva is a ship’s captain, and a very selfish person. As the outsider, she is both relatable to the reader, and since everything is new to her, we learn about the world through her eyes. She’s a kind person, and was never supposed to end up in the snake pit that is the Interdependency upper crust. The books mostly alternate between three characters: Cardenia Wu, Kiva Lagos, and Marce Claremont.Ĭardenia, as explained above, is in over her head right from the get-go. Meanwhile, a scientist on End discovers something terrible about the Flow… Characters Then her brother died in an accident, and now her father - the current Emperox - is dying too, thrusting her into the center of things as the new Emperox. Hub is also where the spiritual and practical leader of the Interdependency resides: the Emperox.Ĭardenia Wu was never supposed to become Emperox. And at the center is Hub, where a web of Flow streams meet. And those have been designed to need each other’s produce to survive. Most of humanity lives on space stations. There is but one world where humans can actually walk on a planet surface without a protective suit End, which is at the ass-end of nowhere. The interstellar empire is called the Interdependency, and it is exactly that: a large number of star systems completely dependent on each other. As the series starts, they have lived in a large interstellar empire connected by the Flow for a millennium or more.
Supposedly, humanity originated on a planet called Earth, but they lost almost all knowledge about that time, along with the planet itself. A hyperspace-like interdimensional network of passageways called ‘the Flow’ allowed humanity to conquer the stars. In the distant future, mankind has conquered the stars.
The three books came out the past few years, and I recently finished the third installment. The Interdependency series is a trilogy of scifi books by John Scalzi.
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