Tor Free Ebook for April: John Scalizi’s The Collapsing Empire

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You can read about the book and download it from Tor here.

The offer expires at 11:59pm tonight, April 1st.

The book is available in mobi (Kindle) or epub format.

They ask for an email address (you can unsubscribe).

Tor gives away one free ebook every month. This month's book is SF, and won the Locus award.

It's the first of a trilogy; the third volume comes out April 14 of this year.

Here's the blurb:

Riding The Flow, the only way to travel faster-than-light, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war—and, for the empire’s rulers, a system of control.

The Flow is eternal—but it’s not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well. In rare cases, entire worlds have been cut off from the rest of humanity. When it’s discovered that the entire Flow is moving, possibly separating all human worlds from one another forever, three individuals—a scientist, a starship captain, and the emperox of the Interdependency—must race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.
 

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Scalzi is always an entertaining read, whether it's his books or his Twitter feed and his infinite variety of burritos. Thanks for the heads-up.
 

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It appears to be limited to the USA and Canada according to the terms of the offer, though. Although I have no idea how they plan to check that.