Empire Ascendant
core novel 2015 The Worldbreaker Saga
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.87 (1,570 ratings, collected 2026-09-23) |
| Page count | 507 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780857665584 |
Synopsis
With Saiduan in ruins, the invading empire that shares its victims' faces turns its full force on the Dhai. Their only hope rests with an illegitimate ruler and a scullery maid whose magic is as dangerous as it is unpredictable, while a former ally takes up her empress's sword to fight back and two enslaved scholars carry a long-hidden secret homeward. As the dark star Oma climbs higher, blood mages, sentient plants, and a world split against itself are pushed toward all-out war.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Worldbreaker Saga
- Series: The Worldbreaker Saga core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Kameron Hurley
Notes
- From the series record (The Worldbreaker Saga): Core Canon is all three books of the completed trilogy: The Mirror Empire (2014), Empire Ascendant (2015), and The Broken Heavens (first published in print 14 January 2020).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Worldbreaker Saga: position 2 of 3: previous The Mirror Empire (2014) · next The Broken Heavens (2020)
Sources
- Angry Robot: The Mirror Empire
- Angry Robot: Empire Ascendant
- Angry Robot: The Broken Heavens
- Kameron Hurley's own site: Empire Ascendant
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