2023/094: Empire Games — Charles Stross

2023/094: Empire Games — Charles Stross

“They’ve given me a Priority One tasking to look at the state of geological and paleontological research and confirm that BLACK RAIN [timeline 2] was created in the Year of Our Lord 4004 B.C., just like our own time line.” [p. 269]

The first of a trilogy set in the same universe as Stross' six-volume Merchant Princes series, of which I've only read the first volume (The Family Trade). I picked up the essentials very quickly in Empire Games, which is set some time after the Merchant Princes series, but shares the concept of 'world-walkers' who can move between Earths on different timelines. ( Read more... )