Queen of Nowhere (The Hidden Empire Sequence Book 5)
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Bez, the best hacker in human-space, is fighting a secret war agai When paranoia is a way of life, trust doesn't come easily. Bez, the best hacker in human-space, is fighting a secret war against them. Always one step ahead, never lingering in one place, she's determined to bring them down.
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But she can't expose the Hidden Empire alone and when the only ally she trusted fails her she must accept help from an unexpected quarter. Just one misstep, one incorrect assumption, and her Sidhe trap - her life's work - could end in vicious disaster. Worse, if Bez fails then humanity may never have another chance to win free of the manipulative and deadly Sidhe. Paperback , pages. Published January 3rd by Gollancz first published December 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Queen of Nowhere , please sign up.
Lists with This Book. Apr 05, Paul rated it really liked it Shelves: They look human, have considerable mental and actual resources at their disposal, and have the advantage that no one actually believes they exist. They were thought to have vanished a thousand years ago, but Bez knows the Sidhe still live among human-occupied space.
Even though there are not many of them left, they have people in key positions and wield considerable power and influence over what they consider a substandard race. Bez has been fighting her own secret war against them. Using multipl They look human, have considerable mental and actual resources at their disposal, and have the advantage that no one actually believes they exist.
Using multiple identities and rarely staying long anywhere and building a network of spies and agents, she has located almost all of the Sidhe across habs.
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If she was to make one mistake though, the trap that she has spent her life setting will end in disaster and the Sidhe would have won. Her knife-edge balancing act begins to wobble when she realises that the only person who knows her real identity might not be able to be trusted and that there is another who claims to know who she is and has been helping her all along.
To survive this, and bring about her life's work, she is going to need every instinct that has kept her alive so far. This is the fifth in the series of the Hidden Empire series from Fenn, and it slots nicely into the universe that she has created in her previous books. The world building is as good as the previous books, I particularly liked the starliners that Bez uses to get to the different habs where the populations live in her universe. Apart from the main character, the rest are a little thin, but the plot rescues this with is fast pace, twists and turns and explosive ending.
Great stuff as usual and I am eagerly looking forward to her new series.
Jul 18, Pippa Jay rated it it was amazing Shelves: As always, the complexity and depth of the world building and technology are SciFi heaven to me. At first Bez irritated me with her apparently paranoia fueled obsession with every detail of her situation, but it soon becomes understandable why this is such a big deal. The broad mixture of cultures she has to integrate herself into makes for a believable and diverse universe.
Editorial Reviews. Review. A major new talent―SFX Fenn recalls something of the cosmic . Queen of Nowhere is the fifth novel in the Hidden Empire sequence. This sequence is interesting because it tries to be a fairly tightly- serialised space. Queen of Nowhere has 64 ratings and 15 reviews. Queen of Nowhere (Hidden Empire, #5) Rate this book books — 56 voters .. Her Hidden Empire space opera sequence, published by Gollancz, starts with the novel 'Principles of .
Nice twist at the end. What I didn't like: I missed Taro, Jarek, and especially Nual, with all three having been cast in much smaller roles in this after being the main characters previously. While the story mostly stays with the central character Bez and in her POV, there are odd jumps to other significant but fleeting characters that threw me out. Toward the end their significance becomes more obvious which makes it easier reading, but some readers might find it jarring. Also, this is apparently the last book. This is my favourite kind of space opera.
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I have loved all the books of the Hidden Empire, and I'm sorry this appears to be the final one. This was probably the less explosive and action packed of the five - more tension and intrigue - but nevertheless an entertaining and compulsive read. One for those who want SF with a different twist. It can be read as a stand-alone, but personally I think it's more enjoyable if you've read the rest of the series.
Mar 11, Adam Whitehead rated it really liked it. The Sidhe, who once enslaved and ruled all of humanity, have returned and inserted themselves into key positions of power right across human-controlled space.
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Only a few are aware of their return, and the data expert Bez is working hard to bring about their downfall. Her plan requires perfect timing, the recruitment of trustworthy allies and, if necessary, blackmail. But when her strongest ally apparently betrays her, Bez is left to face the Sidhe alone. Queen of Nowhere is the fifth novel in the The Sidhe, who once enslaved and ruled all of humanity, have returned and inserted themselves into key positions of power right across human-controlled space.
Queen of Nowhere is the fifth novel in the Hidden Empire sequence. This sequence is interesting because it tries to be a fairly tightly-serialised space opera whilst trying to make each book a stand-alone, with the focus moving between different groups of characters. Queen of Nowhere brings Bez, a fairly minor character in the earlier books, into sharp relief Jarek, Taro and Nual, our 'regular' protagonists, are relegated to bit-players in Bez's story.
Compared to the frequent point of view changes and shifting between planets of the previous volume, Bringer of Light, Queen of Nowhere benefits from a tight focus on Bez and her storyline. That said, Queen of Nowhere also depicts events on a fairly large scale, some of them happening many light-years from where Bez is. The book's structure intercuts between Bez and brief scenes on other planets as members of Bez's network get ready for the decisive moment of action and their enemies try to protect themselves.
It's an efficient structure which helps get across a big story in a modest page count. Fenn's biggest weakness - her fairly prosaic, indifferent prose style - has been addressed, with more colour and strangeness in her descriptions. A visit to a planet with both segregation of the genders but also a relaxed attitude to sex is fairly vividly described. Her characterisation has also taken a big step forwards. Bez may be the most compelling protagonist Fenn has created so far, her very ordinariness and lack of material resources despite her immense data-mining abilities or superpowers being contrasted against Fenn's more familiar characters.
Action sequences are handled with skill and there's a general feeling of improvement across the board. The main weakness is that this is part of a series, despite the author's attempts to make things approachable for a newcomer. Indeed, newcomers may be frustrated by what they'll see as deus ex machina such as Taro and Nual's Angel powers whilst long-term readers may be disappointed by a lack of development on dangling plot threads from earlier in the series. The 'greater threat' which even dwafs the Sidhe and was introduced in Guardians of Paradise goes completely unmentioned, and there's certainly the feeling in the book's conclusion that we still have some way to go to reach the endgame, despite some elements being wrapped up in this volume.
Oct 25, Benj rated it liked it. I felt a bit disconnected from the first half of this book - it seemed to be more about data drops and encryption protocols than a real story. It did pick up in the second half, however.
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I hadn't realised and the edition I read didn't make it clear that this is 5 in a series. I might have enjoyed it more if I'd read the first four. Apr 26, Graham Crawford rated it it was ok. This isn't terrible, but the writer is seriously punching about her weight.
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There are a lot of embarrassing moments when this author thinks she is being droll or clever when she's spouting cliches. The Arch Enemies are basically sexy Fembots - which might work in a comedy sketch, but these are played straight. I don't think even early Heinlein would have tried to get away with that. The alluded to sex is mostly mommy porn, although there is at least more than a nod to non-heterosexual attractio This isn't terrible, but the writer is seriously punching about her weight. The alluded to sex is mostly mommy porn, although there is at least more than a nod to non-heterosexual attraction.
The chapters set in the gender divided community were by far the most interesting bits in this book. From time to time there was a weird sense of passages coming into a much sharper focus, I suspect these sections were inspired by autobiographical events. I started to wonder if this writer had a rather suburban or small town religious upbringing so she escaped into pulp sci fi. Probably a troubled child, who kicked the dust off her teen-aged sandals, left her petty minded mom behind, and then experimented with soft drugs and bisexuality.
Jul 03, SFReader rated it really liked it. This is the fifth book in this excellent series -- read my review of Principles of Angels here. So would it continue to be as gripping as the previous offerings? They have fearsome mental abilities and considerable physical resources at their disposal. Bez is fighting a secret war against them. Always one step ahead, never lingering in one place, she's determined to bring them do This is the fifth book in this excellent series -- read my review of Principles of Angels here.
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