Charles Stross. (2018). Dark State: Empire Games Series, Book 2. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Charles Stross. 2018. Dark State: Empire Games Series, Book 2. Macmillan Audio.

Charles Stross, Dark State: Empire Games Series, Book 2. Macmillan Audio, 2018.

Charles Stross. Dark State: Empire Games Series, Book 2. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2018.

OverDrive Product Record

readingOrder

2

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1493-1/F32/1E1/C3/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1493-1/F32/1E1/C3/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427288806
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427288806
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427288806
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427288806
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Charles Stross

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Dark State

seriesId

517798

dateAdded

2018-02-16T22:50:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=3348568
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Dark State Empire Games Series Book 02

crossRefId

3348568

series

Empire Games

subtitle

Empire Games Series, Book 2

id

F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98

starRating

3.9

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 14:02:32
   • fileName: DarkState_9781427288806_3348568
   • partCount: 15
   • fileSize: 401582536
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427288806
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427288806
   • rights:
     1. • type: PlayOnPC
        • value: 1
     2. • type: PlayOnPCCount
        • value: -1
     3. • type: BurnToCD
        • value: 1
     4. • type: BurnToCDCount
        • value: -1
     5. • type: PlayOnPM
        • value: 1
     6. • type: TransferToSDMI
        • value: 1
     7. • type: TransferToNonSDMI
        • value: 1
     8. • type: TransferCount
        • value: -1
     9. • type: CollaborativePlay
        • value: 0
     10. • type: PublicPerformance
         • value: 0
     11. • type: TranscodeToAAC
         • value: 1
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-mp3
   • onSaleDate: 1/9/2018
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3348568-DarkState.mp3
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f321e1c3-369b-40dc-a3ca-e73dcb7f6a98&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • duration: 13:56:31
   • fileName: multipart.odm
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 401530456
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781427288806
     2. • type: 8
        • value: macmillan_audio#9781427288806
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 1/9/2018
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-mp3
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3348568-DarkState.mp3
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f321e1c3-369b-40dc-a3ca-e73dcb7f6a98&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: speculative fiction
2. • value: interdimensional travel
3. • value: technological thriller
4. • value: techno thriller
5. • value: political science fiction
6. • value: time travel fiction
7. • value: science fantasy series
8. • value: time travelers
9. • value: technology thriller
10. • value: parallel worlds fiction
11. • value: science fiction espionage thriller
12. • value: science fiction thrillers
13. • value: time travel novels
14. • value: alternative history series
15. • value: kirkus reviews best books of the year
16. • value: alternate history series
17. • value: audio books sci fi
18. • value: audiobooks science fiction
19. • value: empire games series
20. • value: family trade series
21. • value: hugo award winning authors
22. • value: merchant princes multiverse
23. • value: merchant princes series
24. • value: parallel worlds novels
25. • value: sci fi audio books
26. • value: sci fi spy thriller
27. • value: science fiction audio books
28. • value: science fiction audiobooks
29. • value: best books of 2018
30. • value: best adult audio books
31. • value: best audiobooks for adults
32. • value: best fiction audiobooks
33. • value: sci fi audiobooks
34. • value: sci fi books on tape
35. • value: science fiction books on tape

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Stross, Charles
   • bioText:

     CHARLES STROSS (he/him) is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale "Equoid." His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children.
     Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world's first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.

   • name: Charles Stross
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Reading, Kate
   • name: Kate Reading

publishDate

2018-01-09T00:00:00-05:00

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Dark State

fullDescription

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller audiobook 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 a perfect entry point for new listeners, in The Merchant Princes series.
In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile, a sleeper cell activated in Rita's, the Commissioner's adopted daughter and newly-minted spy, timeline threatens to unravel everything.
With a penchant for intricate world-building and an uncanny ability to realize alternate history and technological speculation, Stross' prose will captivate listeners who like hi-tech thrillers, inter-dimensional political intrigue, and espionage.

seriesId

517798

reviews

1. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     December 18, 2017
     In Stross’s middling second Empire Games novel (after Empire Games), plots don’t just thicken; they proliferate and snarl in each other like weeds. In the year 2020 in Timeline Two, a world somewhat like ours, U.S. spies have recruited Rita Douglas, the estranged daughter of intertemporal spy extraordinaire Miriam Burgeson. Having failed to infiltrate Timeline Three’s North American Commonwealth (which only freed itself from the British monarchy in 2003), Rita returns to the unfriendly embrace of her handlers with a message from Miriam: open diplomatic relations between the timelines, or face another war. But the Commonwealth has its own problems—the head of its government is terminally ill, and his death will trigger the country’s first succession crisis. Hoping to solidify their position against other factions, the worldwalkers who move between timelines hope to pull off a diplomatic coup: helping Princess Elizabeth Hanover defect from Britain to the Commonwealth. When these plans go awry, Rita is pulled even deeper into the machinations of two timelines, trying to prevent a war that threatens to consume them all. Stross writes with passion and ease about both human and technological spycraft, and his characters remain intriguing and sympathetic. The story, however, feels like a placeholder for the next book, and finishes with an unsatisfying cliff-hanger. Agent: Caitlin Blasdell, Liza Dawson Associates.

popularity

0

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/f321e1c3-369b-40dc-a3ca-e73dcb7f6a98/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

f321e1c3-369b-40dc-a3ca-e73dcb7f6a98

starRating

3.9

readingOrder

2

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1493-1/F32/1E1/C3/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1493-1/F32/1E1/C3/{F321E1C3-369B-40DC-A3CA-E73DCB7F6A98}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Science Fiction
3. • value: Historical Fiction

publishDateText

01/09/2018

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller audiobook 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 a perfect entry point for new listeners, in The Merchant Princes series.
In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile, a sleeper cell activated in Rita's, the Commissioner's adopted daughter and newly-minted spy, timeline threatens to unravel everything.
With a penchant for intricate world-building and an uncanny...

sortTitle

Dark State Empire Games Series Book 02

crossRefId

3348568

series

Empire Games

subtitle

Empire Games Series, Book 2

publisher

Macmillan Audio

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC028010
   • description: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
2. • code: FIC028080
   • description: Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel
3. • code: FIC040000
   • description: Fiction / Alternative History