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That's not the worst of it, though. From the borders of the Empire, a number of threats have arisen: a group of [[AI Is a Crapshoot|formerly subservient AIs]] which broke free of their programming and formed the planet Shub, driven to exterminate their old masters; the Sleepers, a group of aliens genetically engineered as weapons, intended to destroy all in their path... and other horrors from beyond the Darkvoid, a multiple-light-year-wide sphere of death which the Empire created hundreds of years ago. Oh, and that's ''still'' nothing compared to the court intrigues, only kept at bay by the terror the Empress bestows upon her subjects.
 
The eight-book ''Deathstalker'' series, written by [[Simon R Green|Simon R. Green]], drops the reader right into the midst of this, beginning with the outlawing of one Owen [[Noun Verber|Deathstalker]], an [[Unlikely Hero|aristocratic historian]] who just wanted to relax in comfort on his idyllic, pastoral homeworld. That changes fast, and he's forced to take up arms with the smuggler Hazel D'Ark, the bounty hunter Ruby Journey, the [[Rebellious Spirit|hero of the rebellion Jack Random]], and the former [[Hollywood Cyborg|Hadenman]] Tobias Moon... as well as a host of other unsavory characters, all of whom are [[Anti-Hero|out for themselves]] as much as anything.
 
In short, the ''Deathstalker'' series is a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] [[Space Opera]], soft as warm butter on the [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|Mohs scale]], and is [[Serial Novel|sliced up into hundred- or two-hundred-page sections]] which could generally stand as stories on their own right. One can expect quite a lot of [[HSQ]] and similar moments when explaining any given segment, particularly as one reads further on. Finally, outside of the series itself, there are a handful of other stories written by [[Simon R Green|Simon R. Green]] in the same universe, including the compilation ''Twilight of the Empire''.
 
* ''Twilight of the Empire'' (1998)
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* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Wampyrs, who have all their blood pumped out and replaced with a rather more potent drug.
* [[Parental Incest]]: Gregor and Evangeline Shreck.
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: The Stevie Blues.
* [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]]: {{spoiler|Giles' baby esper clone ''is'' the Darkvoid Device.}}
* [[Psychic Link]]: Owen, Hazel, Jack, Ruby, Moon, and Giles (at first); and Silence and Frost
* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]: Julian Skye.
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* [[So What Do We Do Now?]]: Our heroes find themselves asking that question after the rebellion. Ruby gets hit hardest by it.
* [[Sword and Gun]]: Tends to be justified because the disruptors have a two minute recharge lag.
* [[Snarky Non -Human Sidekick]]: Ozymandias, the AI that's oftentimes by Owen's side.
* {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop]]}}
* [[Teleporters and Transporters|Teleportation]]: Giles Deathstalker.
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: Silence and Frost's reasoning for not telling anyone about their abilities.
* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: The people who went through the Madness Maze; and to a lesser extent (they already had powers), the espers touched by the Mater Mundi.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Silence and Frost, {{spoiler|cut short by Frost's death}}. To be fair, Silence admitted that {{spoiler|even if Frost lived, their relationship would always be in this state, since Frost is an investigator}}.
* [[Victory Is Boring]]
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