Description
The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four pillars: logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing on those pillars, humans spent 100,000 years spreading out, warring, exploring, partying — the usual. Then there was the fifth science. And that killed the empire stone dead.
The Fifth Science is a collection of 12 stories, beginning at the start of the Galactic Human Empire and following right through to its final days. We’ll see some unusual things along the way: untypical galactic lighthouses from the distant future, alien tombs from the distant past, murderers, emperors, archaeologists and drunks, and mad mathematicians attempting to wake the universe itself. And when humans have fallen back into savagery, when the secrets of space folding and perfect wisdom are forgotten, we’ll attend the empire’s deathbed and hold its hand as it goes. Unfortunately, that may well only be the beginning.