Empire Games: Dark State : A Novel of the Merchant Princes Multiverse (Empire Games, Book II) (Series #2) (Paperback)

from quondame

More readable than [Empire Games] the latest in the Merchant Princes multiple worlds bounces between equally depressing Time line 2(us) & Time line 3 with Time line 1 refugees. #2 & #3 don't seem to either have much to recommend them, and while we may have some sympathy for a few of the character...

from sarcher

Three significant conflicts - intra-empire in timeline 3, intra-timeline 2 and 3, and timeline 2 v exterior threat. With how slow the conflicts developed in books one and two of this series (none are near their resolution, and the exterior threat was introduced in the last piece of book two), can...

from Karlstar

Politics, politics and more politics. There's a little bit of spy thriller in here too, but not enough. Stross seems to be trying to convince us that his not-quite-Earth alternate timeline is better than the slightly future Earth (the book is set in 2020 but was written in 2017) of our timeline, ...

from PDCRead

Picking right up where Empire Games left off, Rita the world-walker is back in her home America. Her handlers are slightly disturbed that she was picked up so quickly and the message that she has returned with has allsorts of ominous overtones. The politics of that country are beginning to crack ...

from dukedom_enough

This is the second book of a trilogy, but also number eight of a nine-book series. There are many timelines for Earth, each with a different history. A few people have the ability to teleport between timelines. The book mainly stays with two timelines in the year 2020. Timeline Two is like ours, ...