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A review by onceandfuturelaura
Dark State by Charles Stross
3.0
Continues Stross's economic-science-fiction-with-fantasy-trappings series. Feudalism vs. mercantilism vs. the surveillance state vs. creeping dominionism with just a pinch of "don't wake up the ancient security system." Most of the governments and economic systems are evil; most of the individuals within those governments and systems are trying hard to be do good. The Gunpowder Plot repeats with variations. Also Rumsfeld is president.
Maybe this series is too much like real life for me. I devour the Laundry Files book and am already mourning them drawling to an apocalyptic close. I like this book but they don't sing the same way. Too many princesses, not enough Ice Kings.
Maybe this series is too much like real life for me. I devour the Laundry Files book and am already mourning them drawling to an apocalyptic close. I like this book but they don't sing the same way. Too many princesses, not enough Ice Kings.