I've been reading Charles Stross's latest book (which features a democratic socialist alternate universe that is in competition with something like our USA and it's own enemies.) and I guessed the plot twist 200 pages early because I read Jakarta Method.
He's very good indeed, he is a Demsoc so there are occasional brainworms but his takes are mostly good and materialist.
The Merchant Princes is the prequel series to the one I mentioned, and is a deconstruction of both the "secret princess" and "Lets start the industrial revolution" genres of portal fantasy. There are nods to foundation, but more in the themes of economic development.
I adore his novel Glasshouse, about a living history project in a post singularity civ recovering from a war of literal identity theft.
And the Laundry novels, which start out Lovecraft-light (the premise is that computing is magic and if you do it too much you'll compute up a shoggoth) and end up Lovecraft-heavy.
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I've been reading Charles Stross's latest book (which features a democratic socialist alternate universe that is in competition with something like our USA and it's own enemies.) and I guessed the plot twist 200 pages early because I read Jakarta Method.
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He's very good indeed, he is a Demsoc so there are occasional brainworms but his takes are mostly good and materialist.
The Merchant Princes is the prequel series to the one I mentioned, and is a deconstruction of both the "secret princess" and "Lets start the industrial revolution" genres of portal fantasy. There are nods to foundation, but more in the themes of economic development.
I adore his novel Glasshouse, about a living history project in a post singularity civ recovering from a war of literal identity theft.
And the Laundry novels, which start out Lovecraft-light (the premise is that computing is magic and if you do it too much you'll compute up a shoggoth) and end up Lovecraft-heavy.