Empress of Forever

A Novel

480 pages

Published June 17, 2019 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-9581-8
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4 stars (17 reviews)

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Review of 'Empress of Forever: A Novel' on 'Storygraph'

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I think what turned me off of this book is I was initially very stoked for Vivian's covert exit from her life, the intrigue of managing anonymity after being so famous. Emotionally I was all set for something that felt like a heist and then the book abruptly transforms into something else. I was fully absorbed into the first set of rules and then just couldn't make the pivot into the galaxy-hopping ragtag band story. 

Review of 'Empress of Forever: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'

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About midway through (before I'd spotted the work of classic literature it was riffing on), I said to a friend of mine that one way to think about this book was if you imagine that Farscape had been written by someone who just binge watched the entire run of Steven Universe. Neither of those shows were among the cultural touchstones mentioned in the afterword, but that characterization didn't feel any less accurate as I went on.

With Farscape, it shares a thematic fascination with breaking down the boundaries between its individual characters and the world around them: they're doubled, split, traumatized, mixed together, they eat and are eaten, their minds and bodies are leaky and permeable. And it takes that show's narrative tendency never to let a frying pan go by without a scarier fire prepped and waiting beyond. With Steven Universe, it shares an abiding faith in the ability …

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