Dark State

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Charles Stross: Dark State (2018, Pan Macmillan)

400 pages

English language

Published 2018 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-4472-4758-6
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4 stars (1 review)

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie 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 …

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Review of 'Dark State' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

For a Charles Stross book, I was finding this slow going until near the end when the pace picked up and the plot started to get interesting.

And then it was over.

With a long historical essay that I skimmed through.

Stross has done enough things I love that I'll keep reading everything he publishes. I just hope he gets back to having more fun with things.

Subjects

  • Fiction, science fiction, general