The Last Emperox

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The Last Emperox, John Scalzi. Conclusion of the Collapsing Empire trilogy. Another fast read without a huge amount of substance. I ultimately found these a little glib for the subject matter - Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a much more powerful book about civilizational collapse, and has turned out to be a book I find myself thinking about all the time - but on the other hand it's very genre-normal for space opera to be glib about giant catastrophes, and Scalzi delivers some funny moments and even a little poignancy, and, hey. Sometimes it's just nice to read something that isn't ever either uncomfortable or boring. (And I truly have a lot of respect for Scalzi's skill as a writer that he can deliver that consistently.)