Invisible Sun

Name: Invisible Sun
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Stross
ISBN: 9781250852373

Author: Charles Stross

Series: Empire Games #3

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 18 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 09/28/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun—the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State—as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines.

An inter-timeline coup d'état gone awry.

A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin.

And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole, wreaking havoc in the USA.

Can disgraced worldwalker Rita and her intertemporal extraordaire agent of a mother neutralize the livewire contention before it's too late?

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Charles Stross

Charles Stross (he/him) is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry Files series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. He has won three Hugo Awards, including one for the Laundry Files novella “Equoid,” published on Tor.com. Born and raised in Leeds, England, he lives with his spouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading is the recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been named by AudioFile magazine as a “Voice of the Century,” as well as the Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy in 2008 and 2009 and Best Voice in Biography & Culture in 2010. She has narrated works by such authors as Jane Austen, Robert Jordan, Edith Wharton, and Sophie Kinsella. Reading has performed at numerous theaters in Washington D.C. and received a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in Aunt Dan and Lemon. AudioFile magazine reports that, "With subtle control of characters and sense of pacing, Kate’s performances are a consistent pleasure."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on August 16, 2021

The good and the bad. First of all, ya'll should know I'm a big Stross fanboy -- and have been ever since Accelerando and hardly anything he's ever written since then has come off as anything less than extremely interesting. I didn't even have a problem with the Eschaton's get out of jail free card.......more

Goodreads review by Alan on November 25, 2021

Oops, I did it again. I seem to have recently made a habit (accidentally, I swear!) of skipping entries in series by various authors—I did this with Tim Powers' Forced Perspectives, as well as with Richard Kadrey's King Bullet, the finale to his Sandman Slim series. To some extent, I can blame the vag......more

Goodreads review by Aidan on July 28, 2021

I can’t blame Charles Stross for thinking Invisible Sun must be cursed. The capper to a series originating almost twenty years ago, it’s been serially delayed by family tragedies, the loss of a longtime editor, burnout, and COVID. It'd have been understandable if it’d never been finished. Unfortunat......more