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Here’s where Stross does something that makes most fantasy authors weep. Most stories would focus on sword fights or magical politics. Stross focuses on arbitrage . If you are a fan of hard SF

Space is boring. Traveling for 10,000 years at sub-light speed is narratively toxic. Stross solves this problem using a technique he borrowed from C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters . Who is Charles Stross

: The story continues in a near-future setting with Empire Games , Dark State , and Invisible Sun