Pandora's Daughter

As barbarism and chaos spread throughout the galaxy, a dying empire searches for an ancient font of knowledge that holds the key to humanity's perseverance.Civilization seems to be failing everywhere. The dangerous technology that gave humans spaceflight is out of control. A genetically engineered virus has resurrected the scourge of slavery. Every rebellious province and rogue world purports that they have the only strategy for governing the empire and the human race.Emperor Stuart II fears his empire, which has kept order for the millennia, will collapse after his death. His daughter, Fuji, a headstrong economist and historian, undertakes a six-month voyage into the decaying and lost realms of the empire in search of wisdom that will hold it together.