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It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches the video footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon, and realises that the robbery from an online game company is actually a robbery from an online game. Just wonderful. Like she has nothing better to do. But online entertainment is big business, and when the bodies of real people start to show up, it's clear that this is...

A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon. Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution North...

In this chillingly resonant dystopian adventure, two versions of America are locked in conflict. Invisible Sun concludes Charles Stross's Empire Games trilogy. Two twinned worlds are facing attack The New American Commonwealth is caught in a deadly arms race with the USA, its parallel-world rival. And the USA's technology is decades ahead. Yet the Commonweath might self-combust first - for its leader has just died, leaving a crippling power vacuum. Minister Miriam Burgeson must face...

Tõlkinud Iris-Barbara Jeletski Sündmuste Horisont 288 lk Selle raamatu peategelane on Freya Nakamichi-47. Ta on tulnud kasiinost välja dirižaabli rõdule ja mõtleb parajasti, kas mitte hüpata alla sinna Veenuse kaljude suunas, mis peaksid kusagil kolmekümne kilomeetri pärast vastu tulema, kui temaga hakkavad tüli norima „uued aristokraadid“, robotimaailma koorekiht, kellest kaks ulatuvad Freyale vööni. Järgneva võitluse käigus rebib Freya ühel väikemehel pea otsast, see aga ei takista peal talle...

“Equoid” is set shortly before the events of the “The Fuller Memorandum”. It’s the longest non-novel-length Laundry story so far. And it explains (among other things) precisely what H. P. Lovecraft saw behind the wood-shed when he was 14 that traumatized him for life, the reproductive life-cycle of unicorns, and what really happened on Cold Comfort Farm.

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