Empire Games

A Tale of the Merchant Princes Universe

By: Charles Stross

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5 December 2017

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Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross hits the ground running with Empire Games, provocative techno-thriller and fresh storyline in the Merchant Princes universe.

It's 2020. Two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, are set on a collision course. Each timeline's 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 paratime travellers, Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence Commissioner Miriam Burgeson and newly minted spy Rita Douglas-a mother and her long-lost, adopted daughter-are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.

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Praise for Empire Games

"The keen eye and what-if imagination of Charles Stross fuel a fresh look at alternate worlds." --David Brin, author of Existence

"A well-written book, full of mystery and intrigue, with entire worlds at stake." --Michael Flynn

"If you like the spy novels of Ian Fleming, or Len Deighton, as I do, but also appreciate a genre twist, then you'll love Empire Games. It is intelligent, entertaining and yet also a little scary." --SFFWorld.com

Praise for The Merchant Princes Series

"Economic science fiction worth reading." --Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author

"Stross is not a writer who aims to leave his readers reassured: One can't tell which way he's going to go, nor whose side he's on. No one beats him at hypertech either." --The Wall Street Journal

"Absorbing." --Kirkus Reviews

"If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades." --The Times (London) on Charles Stross "A well-written book, full of mystery and intrigue, with entire worlds at stake." --Michael Flynn on Empire Games

"Economic science fiction worth reading." --Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author, on The Merchant Princes series

"If imagination is the key to success for a writer, Charles Stross has it in spades." --The Times (London) on Charles Stross

"A festival of ideas in action, fast moving and often very funny." --Locus on The Hidden Family

"A rollicking, pacy read that delivers on the fun." --Interzone on The Family Trade

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