Now, I don’t do drafts in the traditional way, I do what I call a rolling draft, where I edit as I go along. John Scalzi: Like any writer, part of my job is to make it look easy for you as readers. Do you naturally write with that kind of pacing and minimalism, or does it require a lot of self-editing in later drafts? I recently spoke with Scalzi over the phone about his writing process, the Collapsing Empire universe, climate change, and how to pronounce “Emperox” and “Nohamapetan”.Īdam Morgan: This book is almost effortless to read - the prose flows very smoothly from one scene to another. One sequel has already been confirmed, but a trilogy is possible. Last year, Scalzi signed an unprecedented ten-year, thirteen-book deal with Tor Books (which he explains in greater detail below), and The Collapsing Empire is the first of those books. Three people - a kind scientist named Marce Claremont, a cutthroat businesswoman named Kiva Lagos, and the naive new “emperox” of it all, Cardenia Wu-Patrick - get caught in the web of a political conspiracy to profit off the catastrophe. Hundreds of years from now, humankind’s interstellar civilization is threatened by the collapse of the natural wormhole-esque system (the Flow) that makes faster-than-light travel possible.
Martin limited himself to 300 pages and liked to curse more. It’s like Game of Thrones in space, if George R.
I’ve read 8 science fiction novels so far this year, and most of them were quite good, but none were as unabashedly fun as John Scalzi’s new space-opera adventure, The Collapsing Empire, out this week from Tor Books.
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