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Dark State
A Science Fiction Novel by Charles Stross
Book 2 of the Empire Games Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Techno-Thriller,
- Espionage Thriller,
- Parallel Universes
This book is for you if you're into...
- Paratime espionage with nuclear superpowers on a collision course
- Alternate histories where technology and surveillance shape every move
- Mother-daughter spy dynamics across multiple timelines
Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse.
Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross" new story-line, and perfect entry point for new readers, in The Merchant Princes series.
In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson"s timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile, a sleeper cell activated in Rita"s, the Commissioner"s adopted daughter and newly-minted spy, timeline threatens to unravel everything.
With a penchant for intricate world-building and an uncanny ability to realize alternate history and technological speculation, Stross" writing will captivate any reader who"s a fan hi-tech thrillers, inter-dimensional political intrigue, and espionage.
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