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Eschaton Series

This series plunges into a distant future where humanity has scattered across vast reaches of space and time, thanks to the advent of faster-than-light travel. At the heart of this scattered civilization is the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence observing the destinies of myriad colonies. When one isolated society faces an existential information plague, it must seek aid from its distant brethren. The narratives weave tales of complex political maneuvering, hidden agendas, and cosmic stakes, all under the watchful, inscrutable gaze of the Eschaton.

Singularity Sky
Iron Sunrise

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  1. 1

    Singularity Sky

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.9(13563)Add rating

    In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated.Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way of life is threatened by the arrival of an alien information plague known as the Festival. As forbidden technologies are literally dropped from the sky, suppressed political factions descend into revolutionary turmoil.A battle fleet is sent from Earth to destroy the Festival, but Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat Rachel Mansour have been assigned rather different tasks. Their orders are to diffuse the crisis or to sabotage the New Republic's war-fleet, whatever the cost, before the Eschaton takes hostile action on a galactic scale.

    Singularity Sky
  2. 2

    Iron Sunrise

    • 448 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    4.0(7996)Add rating

    “[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn’t responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown—and unimaginable—enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden but also the very order of the universe. And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows…

    Iron Sunrise