Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in his techno-thriller set in the Merchant Princes universe
Dark State ups the ante on already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Charles Stross' fresh storyline in The Merchant Princes series.
In the near-future, two nuclear superpowers are about to collide across timelines. One is a hyper-police state; the other is in the midst of a technological revolution. And two women — a mother and her long-lost daughter — are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.
In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson’s timeline, her top-level agents run a high-risk extraction of a major political player.
Meanwhile, Rita, newly-minted spy and the Commissioner's estranged daughter, must contend with a an activated sleeper cell that threatens 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 of high-tech thrillers, interdimensional political intrigue, and espionage.
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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy. Stross was born in Leeds.
Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams, Neal Asher and Richard Morgan.
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Charles Stross' official website.
Charles Stross. Wikipedia.
Photo: Photograph by Simon Bradshaw, 1 May 2009, Book signing at Forbidden Planet, London. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.