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Invisible Sun
Invisible Sun
Invisible Sun
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Invisible Sun

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The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun—the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State—as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines.

An inter-timeline coup d'état gone awry.

A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin.

And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole, wreaking havoc in the USA.

Can disgraced worldwalker Rita and her intertemporal extraordaire agent of a mother neutralize the livewire contention before it's too late?

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LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 28, 2021
ISBN9781250807113
Invisible Sun
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Charles Stross

Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time. To date, Stross has won two Hugo awards and been nominated twelve times. He has also won the Locus Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula Awards. He is the author of the popular Merchant Princes and Empire Games series, set in the same world. In addition, his fiction has been translated into around a dozen languages. Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books, and an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Finishes the second trilogy in Merchant Princes—finally, a lot of stuff happens. To wit, the political transition in the not-like-us timeline occurs and it is very eventful and dangerous; the princess tries to avoid capture by the authoritarian US in “our” timeline; and the aliens who destroyed the people who created timeline switching in the first place have found us. Stross could have used an editor to tighten up on all the repetition—it reads like a serial, where each chapter reminds us of what went on previously—but I like the series’ heavy-handedness about the mistakes that governments routinely make about others’ intentions, capabilities, and knowledge.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is totally a last act. We know the players, we know the scenes, and we move through the set pieces to get to and ending that seems somehow too easy. As a reward were given a few pages on the Forerunners and their enemies and how the 3 worlds we spend the most time in branched off, first one then the other.

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