332 pages
Published Jan. 17, 2017 by Tor Books.
This isn't my favorite Stross multiverse, but it is Stross and he knows how to write a compelling novel.
It's multidimensional geopolitics / spy-craft. More of an alternate history than Sci-Fi. Revisiting the cold war and MAD doctrine.
I will be reading the rest of this trilogy.
I seem to be having a run on failed novels. This was rather spectacularly disappointing, disjointed, muddled, and directionless. Oh well. I only read 200 pages.
Aaah! The merchant princess university is back except this time the protagonist isn't suck in some crappy medieval world's creepy breeding program (and Stross is a better writer).
Very enjoyable and will totally read the next one. Does feel very much like a direct sequel to the merchant princess series so I am not really sure why it's it's own series.
Initially a little tricky to keep track of all the people and timelines, it settles into an easier to follow set before long. This book is clearly the introduction story for what will become a detailed and complicated world.
