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Death awaits the curious! Out along the rim of the galaxy hangs a loose configuration of some 60 stars known as the Faustian Chain. This whorl of sparkling suns is rich in planets and occupies an irregular volume of space some 20 light years in diameter. From an external viewpoint, the Chain presents a colorful display of plasma-streams, luminous nebulae and sparkling pinpoints of light.
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History is rewritten in an instant as the future smashes into the past, and high-tech hardware goes head to head with World War Two technology. In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the maelstrom has only just begun. The veterans of Pearl Harbor have never seen a helicopter, or a cruise missile - let alone nanotechnology, ceramic bullets, and F22 Raptor stealth jetfighters. Allied and Axis forces are then caught in a desperate struggle to gain the upper hand.
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had a hard time finishing
- By Connie Uriarte on 05-17-20
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Great Epic Scifi
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Prominence
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They tried to destroy our planets. Our way of life. They tried to send us into extinction. But we, the Coalition, fought them and won. That was a decade ago. They’re known as the Host: a cabal of aliens seeking to dominate our sector of space. And they’re back - with help from a powerful new enemy. We’re outnumbered and unprepared. But there is hope. An ancient race of long-dead but technologically advanced aliens called the Navigators have a ship called the Blackstar that could potentially turn the tide. That is if I, Kai Locke, a humble ship racer, can find it and learn how to harness its power in time.
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Newly found love.
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Up Against It
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Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas, using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff, and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes.
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- DH
- 08-27-17
pointless story
you knew the outcome of the story...when you have an unbelievable entity, it makes all the actions of the characters pointless.
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- SciFi Kindle
- 03-13-15
Humorous look at the futility of fighting progress
There seems to be an uncomfortable amount of bashing the Russian Revolution in the themes found here. A brittle authoritarian monarchy with a deep distrust of post-industrial technology is confronted by an external visitor that turns everything in their society on its head with a deluge of free information. When undercover agents from a freer, more liberal and technologically advanced society insert themselves into the military response, it’s hard not to think of cold war cat-and-mouse thrillers. To make the parallels completely undeniable, Stross has loaded the Soviet-style civilization (ironically named the New Republic) with Eastern European surnames. There’s not a lot of surprises in the plot, however, as the adversaries are so overwhelmingly mismatched. The rigid commanders of the New Republic refuse to realize this, so the reader is treated to a very rapid illustration of a society entering into a technological singularity. Here, I was reminded a bit of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels where the practically omnipotent Culture society often comes into well-meaning conflict with it’s mortal neighbors. There were also some intriguing possibilities brought up regarding FTL travel and its implications on Causality, as well as some practical economic effects resulting from cheap nano fabricators. Separately, a lot of these ideas are explored in other Space Opera books, but they came together nicely here and serve as a reminder of what foundations must be in place before certain technologies safely come into a society’s grasp.
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- PaulC
- 02-05-24
Hard sci-fi that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
My esteem for Charles Stross just grew with this one. It had been a while since I’d read one of his books (Accelerondo the last) and it wasn’t until this that I realized how much I missed his humor and humanity.
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- Sniffs Incense
- 03-09-24
Great ideas densely packed
While there are a lot of fun ideas about post scarcity economics and civic evolution, the story itself feels like a wire frame to hold all the ideas together.
I’m also not entirely sure that being able to move outside your light cone is the same as going back in your own time line, it’s definitely fun to think about though
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- Ed
- 06-10-20
1st in Eschaton series Fast & Fun 6/2020.
The Eschaton is an uber-powerful AI. FTL exists, which makes possible causal violations including going back and eliminating the Eschaton, so it ruthlessly punishes that behavior.
On a conservative planet, an entity called the Festival drops millions of phones that day "can you entertain is?" If so, they offer to make any wish come true.
Martin meets Rachel and good violent fin ensues!
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- Oguzhan Altun
- 06-28-23
Interesting ideas but very shallow characters
It started ok, a bit confusing but with interesting ideas. However when the “hero”s were quite standard and everyone else were almost like caricatures.
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- Paula Ross
- 07-25-09
A unique blend
Stross blends sci-fi, political history, a little philosophy and lots of tongue in cheek wit to make a total hoot of a book. I was alternately lost in the details of the story or the science of the science fiction only to be surprised by the tongue in cheek laugh out loud side references. This was fun.
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- Alexander
- 05-14-09
Good but confusing
The plot is a bit weak, but there is so much hard scifi that you can overlook the pauses in the plot. Of course the narrator makes the story move along faster than it perhaps was written. The transitions between story lines are the most confusing, but the chapters aren't too long so you can get back into the more exciting story lines quickly. It refreshing to hear a story that takes place in other than the USA.
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- Dr. WyoPaul
- 12-01-15
Great story. Great reading
George is one of my favorite readers. I usually associate him with Longmire, but after a couple minutes he convinced me he could do a great job with SF as well.
Stross is s favorite of mine as well, although I have never listened to his Space stories before. I am rushing off to find another. It was a gripping read.
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- Noah Smith
- 11-11-10
Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude
Warning: if you like your books to have dramatic tension or deep characters, this book is not for you. If you like your sci-fi to consist of carefully-thought-out plausible futures, this book is not for you. For those who enjoy crazy gonzo roller coaster rides through fantastic forests of sketchily described hot-off-the-internet tech jargon, this book IS for you. I imagine Charles Stross sitting at home in his boxers writing this book, giggling madly to himself as he types, spilling Dorito crumbs into his chest hair and listening to punk rock on full blast. It is a nonstop face-blast of Far Out.
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