Empire Games
by Charles Stross · first published 2017
6mentions
3recommended by
5HN commenters
2017–2026first – last mentioned
60% recommend40% neutral
331 pages ; 24 cm
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Glasshouse is great. I've enjoyed every Stross novel I've read, and Glasshouse was the first one, after stumbling across a newspaper review when it was released. Both the Laundry Files & Merchant Princes / Empire games series are also great fun. You can get a feel for Stross' Laundry Files series from: "A Colder War" http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm (not Laundry Files, but in the ballpark) "Equoid"…
on “Yet another novel I will no longer write” ↗…tech so thoroughly to it's ends. Related ish, I'd put it off as not my style but I did finally pick up Charlie Stross's Laundry Files saga a couple years back, after being shockingly delighted with his Empire Games which I'd initially thought would be not my style. Laundry Files is a great spy thriller, cross computer geek, cross occult book, that reminded me of a more palatable & long form CCRU. If case anyone…
on “Cybernetic Culture Research Unit” ↗And for anyone who wants to read about Russia in an alien dimension, I can't recommend highly enough Charles Stross's "Merchant Princes" and "Empire Games" series!
on “Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight” ↗…technological singularity, is made freely available by the author In addition to various standalone science fiction novels, Stross also has a couple of long series, the Laundry Files and Merchant Princes / Empire Games. The setting of the Laundry Files is a mix of magic as a branch of applied math, UK secret service bureaucracy and lovecraftian horror. Stross' laundry files novella "Down on the Farm" is available to…
on “The pivot” ↗Actually a plot point in Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy from memory.
on “The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel” ↗…my new space opera for July 2018 (UK publisher will be Orbit; US publisher TBA). Also working on a Wild Cards short story for George R. R. Martin, and awaiting the copy edits on Dark State, the second Empire Games book (publication scheduled for January 2018, by Tor). And in the queue behind that, is the scheduled final rewrite of Empire Games book 3, Invisible Sun (due for publication in January 2019, from Tor).…
on “Ask HN: What are you working on?” ↗