Empire Games
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- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release Date:01-19-17
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
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Publisher's Summary
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 travelers walk between parallel universes.
The year is 2020. It's 17 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 US 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.
©2016 Charles Stross (P)2016 Macmillan Audio
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"Disappointing"
The whole book just feels like setup for the next book. Only for serious fans of the series.
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"Long awaited and promises more."
Story starts slow and takes a while to build to interesting. Ends on high intrigue so I am looking forward to next book in the series. Hope the wait will not be as long until the next book.
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"Roaring good fun"
Loved the merchant princes series, this just adds more to it. Great narration by Kate Reading as well... always a delight hearing her voice.
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"Excellent!"
This is a continuation of the excellent trader series 20 years on and some of the old characters make brief appearances! The narration was excellent. The end was abrupt and the story unresolved as this was clearly only part 1 in a multi-part story. If you are in it for the long haul, you will not be disappointed.
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