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Empire Games
Empire Games | Charles Stross
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Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great leap forward--has a problem. For years, she's warned everyone: "The Americans are coming." Now their drones arrive in the middle of a succession crisis, for their leader, First Man Adam, is dying of cancer, and the vultures are circling. In another timeline, the U.S. has recruited Rita, Miriam's own estranged daughter, to spy across timelines in order to bring down any remaining world-walkers who might threaten national security. But her handlers are keeping information from her. Two nuclear superpowers are set on a collision course. Two increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies are fumbling around in the dark, trying to find a solution to the first contact problem that doesn't result in a nuclear holocaust. And two women--a mother and her long-lost, adopted-out daughter--are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.
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I loved this book. If you've read the original Merchant Princes trilogy this is a must read. If you haven't you can certainly jump in with this one but it won't make quite as much sense. Either way, this is highly recommended.

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Just started this new book by one of my favorite authors, Charles Stross. It is the start of a new series set in the same universe as his earlier Merchant Princes books, which I absolutely loved. (Does everyone else take the dust jacket off while they read a book? I hate the thought of mine getting ruined!)

Melissa_J I usually remove the dust jackets, too. 8y
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