Empire Games: Empire Games : A Tale of the Merchant Princes Universe (Series #1) (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

I saw an article by the author on John Scalzi's blog about this book and it interested me enough to get a copy from my library. I have never read anything by Charles Stross before but I see from his author bio that he has won three Hugo awards and been a finalist 15 times. He does build a convinc...

from wjohnston

Stross opens a new chapter in his Merchant Princes saga, set several years after the previous and introducing a new generation of characters. While I enjoyed the book and look forward to more, this entry mostly sets the table for what is to come.

from PDCRead

Seventeen years ago the Monarch of the New British Empire was overthrown. Since then power has steadily transferred to the North American Commonwealth. They are on course to defeat the French and return democracy once again. However, the commissioner of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Resea...

from Karlstar

To quote from the back cover blurb: "The year is 2020. Two nuclear superpowers across time lines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyperpolice state, are set on a collision course" That's a good way to summarize the situation, guess which one of those two is 'our' ti...

from

Charles Stross's great subject is nuclear holocaust. He doesn't always - or even usually - bring out the explosions explicitly. More often, it's Chthuloid creatures hungering to eat our minds, or robots cheerily carrying on after we're extinct. But the specter of holocaust brings a sense of awful...