{"id":2988,"date":"2018-09-16T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2018-09-16T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:11:15","slug":"collapsing-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragonauthors.com\/bookwyrms\/2018\/09\/16\/collapsing-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Today only! A Scalzi sci-fi award winner for just $2.99!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi<\/h4>\n<p>What if we solved space travel? And then, after we had settled countless planets, what if the solution showed signs of failing catastrophically? These are the questions behind <em>The Collapsing Empire<\/em>, which won the 2018 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. 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