The consuming fire

About “The consuming fire”

The Consuming Fire is a 2018 novel by John Scalzi, the second book in the Interdependency series. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, faces collapse as the Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit enabling travel between stars, disappears. Emperox Grayland II prepares for disaster while enemies who deny the collapse or see opportunity in it prepare for civil war across business, worship, and battlefields.