Empire Games: A Tale of the Merchant Princes Universe

By Charles Stross

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765337592
• ISBN13: 9780765337597
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"