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. …
The sea dragons are returning, and Joron Twiner's dreams of freedom lie shattered. His Shipwife is gone and all he has left is revenge. …
'I have one question for you, Mr Macfarlane, and please don't take it the wrong way. Do you have any idea what you are doing? Any idea at all?'
James Macfarlane - whisky tycoon and dilettante freedom fighter - is beginning to suspect his antagonists have a good point. His plan to overthrow Caledon's despotic leader, the Marischal, had been going swimmingly. That was before he was thrown in a dungeon, shot in the face, and damn near shipwrecked. …
