Empire Games

Empire Games, Book 1

By: Charles Stross

Narrated by: Kate Reading

A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . .

Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon.

Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution US. She must accelerate her world's technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them to hell. After all, they've done it before. Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies, as a cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side?

This new series is set in the same world as Charles Stross' 'Merchant Princes' series.

©2019 Julia Chapman (P)2019 Macmillan Digital Audio

Politics and world walking

This book is great. A "Chronicles of Amber" for the 21st century, with extra SciFi.

Author clumusly jams in his wokeness

The story and the universe are good but the authors ham fisted wokeness gets jammed in all over the place and drags you out of the story to roll your eyes. Its a pity.