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    "description": "The Consuming Fire\u2015the sequel to the 2018 Hugo Award Best Novel finalist and 2018 Locus Award-winning The Collapsing Empire\u2015an epic space-opera novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi\n\nThe Interdependency\u2015humanity\u2019s interstellar empire\u2015is 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.\n\nEmperox 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\u2015or at the very least an opportunity to an ascension to power.\n\nWhile Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing 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.\n\nThe 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.\n",
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