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1) Glasshouse
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Awakening in a clinic with most of his memories missing, Robin goes on the run from unknown enemies, volunteering to take part in the Glasshouse, an experimental pre-accelerated culture in which he will be assigned an anonymous identity.
3) Iron sunrise
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, must join forces with a disaffected teenager calling herself Wednesday Shadowmist as she races to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow.
4) Accelerando
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically attempting to annihilate all biological lifeforms.
5) Wireless
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in "MAXOS," suggests clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland in "Snowball's Chance," and sets the stage for appearances by Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould in "The Colder War."
6) Empire games
Author
Series
Empire Games volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great...
7) Dark state
Author
Series
Empire Games volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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,...
8) Rule 34
Author
Series
Halting State volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content. And occasionally, even more disturbing patterns arise…
Three ex-cons have been murdered in Germany, Italy, and Scotland. The only things they had in common were arrests for spamming—and...
Three ex-cons have been murdered in Germany, Italy, and Scotland. The only things they had in common were arrests for spamming—and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. ...
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