The Consuming Fire

New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Consuming Fire is the second installment of the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency—humanity’s interstellar empire—is on the verge of collapse. The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations stranded. Emperox Grayland II of the Interdependency is ready to take desperate measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth—or at the very least an opportunity to an ascension to power. While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are prepare for a civil war. A war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business and the altars of worship as much as it will between spaceships and battlefields. The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, as are her enemies. Nothing about this will be easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its consuming fire. OTHER TOR BOOKS BY JOHN SCALZI Agent to the Stars The Android’s Dream Fuzzy Nation Redshirts Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008 The Kaiju Preservation Society Starter Villain When the Moon Hits Your Eye Monsters of Ohio THE OLD MAN’S WAR NOVELS Old Man’s War The Ghost Brigades The Last Colony Zoë’s Tale The Human Division The End of All Things The Shattering Peace THE LOCK IN SERIES Lock In Head On Unlocked THE INTERDEPENDENCY SEQUENCE The Collapsing Empire The Last Emperox EDITED BY JOHN SCALZI Metatropolis At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.