--- product_id: 290639724 title: "Invisible Sun (Empire Games Book 3)" brand: "charles stross" price: "₩22329" currency: KRW in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.kr/products/290639724-invisible-sun-empire-games-book-3 store_origin: KR region: South Korea --- # Invisible Sun (Empire Games Book 3) **Brand:** charles stross **Price:** ₩22329 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Invisible Sun (Empire Games Book 3) by charles stross - **How much does it cost?** ₩22329 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kr](https://www.desertcart.kr/products/290639724-invisible-sun-empire-games-book-3) ## Best For - charles stross enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted charles stross brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Invisible Sun (Empire Games Book 3) ## Images ![Invisible Sun (Empire Games Book 3) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T1/images/I/51NJJ+yCf-S.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thoughtfully written. Well formed characters. Good plot. *by C***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 January 2023* Thoughtfully written. Well formed characters. Good plot. Read in sequence. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic series with OK but ineligant last book *by M***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 January 2022* I greatly respect the author, Charlie Stross, and I know how everything went seriously wrong as he repeatedly tried to finish writing this difficult concluding novel. So I don't want to be too critical. Invisible Sun does succeed in wrapping up his extremely compelling Merchant Princess series. Which means that I'd still give the series, as a whole an enthusiastic 5 star recommendation! :-)However... What I like most about Stross's books is that they usually start in the action and roll pretty well. What I hate is repetition. That was unfortunately a big aspect that stopped me reading his Laundry universe novels - regurgitated spiel that was innovative genius in the first book, but tired by the 4th. Invisible Sun spends the first 25% of its length re-establishing the main characters and summarising the events of the previous novels, repeatedly. Then there's one little bit of action, which is again chewed over. So it wasn't until around 45% through that the plot actually started to flow for me...I guess each book needs to stand on its own, to an extent. And it will have been a few years for most fans, since reading the last, while I came very late and read them all together at the start of last year. But I really felt that even someone who (bizarrely) started reading the series from this last book, would have felt that certain things were laboured too much! Yes, we know they nuked the entire Guinmarkt!In my Kindle version, there were an uncharacteristically large number of typos, too. About a dozen in the opening third. Like it had been re-written and copy-checked in haste. Distracting; a couple totally changed the meaning. Including one in the up-front glossary of characters, that incorrectly stated who was married to whom and had me scratching my head. On Twitter, Stross partly responded to me, suggesting reporting such things to the publisher. *NOT* marking them as error in the eBook, as that can only cause the book to be pulled and loose the author time and money.In terms of plot, there was nothing too surprising to me. It felt very safe. Almost fan-service. I was kinda disappointed there weren't more developments with the aliens; it ultimately just used a couple chapters of straight up exposition to explain exactly the history of the universes. Which read, to me, kind of like author's background notes, pasted straight in. And again, the second one summarised some things already stated in the first, and overall didn't really change my understanding from the previous novels. (Though did make plain one axiomatic plot hole.) Like, he REALLY wanted to make sure every last reader understood exactly what had transpired...One of the main characters, Dr Scanton, also read like an author's mouthpiece at times. While a primary antagonist from the previous book, the Commonwealth's Party Secretary, who I was looking forwards to seeing how his meddling played out, was entirely written out of the book. Off camera, so to speak, like an actor who died between TV seasons. I guess there wasn't time to explore him, or events didn't play out well with him involved. It was anti-climatic that the main villains were characters I didn't remember, or weren't even properly introduced previously.It seemed that the suspense of the extraction plot-line was also deliberately dialled all the way back, too, by (oddly) structuring the chapters such that the reader already knew the outcome before the antagonists section. Not quite hitting the more exiting balance delivered during equivalent exciting action events towards the middle of the series.Ultimately, things are capped off in Holywood action blockbuster style. Which I guess is fun, though felt implausible, given only a shaky justification (via exposition) as to why it might just work.So, in summary, Invisible Sun was nothing like the abomination of the end of the last season of Game of Thrones (TV show). Not awful at all! It hit a reasonable mark and stayed upright, but was just inelegant. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A ripping ending to a fine series *by O***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 May 2022* Charles Stross ties up the many threads of the 'Family Trade' series in suitably impressive and satisfying style. The final installment of this trilogy of trilogies, which began as a world walking fantasy and morphed into science-fiction, political thriller and espionage drama finishes up in spectacular full space opera mode in a multiverse of parallel timelines, complete with a space battle and multiple ravenning nuclear fireballs.This volume brings to a close the story arc of Miriam Burgeson (nee Beckstein) as she and her family and connections as they contend with managing the defection of a rebel princess, fighting off a counterrevolution and defending against the meddling regime change aims of a paranoid avatar of the US of A. And the potential end of everything from a powerful and pitiless machine civilization, not surprisingly also awakened by the meddling of the aforesaid para-USA.The info dumps describing the machine civilization, and their interactions with the ancestors of timeline-hopping humanoids is the weakest part of the story. Rather dry, but blessedly brief. They are necessary to the storyline though.But the edge of seat chase for the rebel princess in the streets of para-Berlin and the blow by blow pacing of the counter-revolution in the Commonwealth timeline are artfully staged, and beautifully realized.More stories in the setting are possible, but Stross does not intend to reuse the existing cast of characters. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.kr/products/290639724-invisible-sun-empire-games-book-3](https://www.desertcart.kr/products/290639724-invisible-sun-empire-games-book-3) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Korea* *Store origin: KR* *Last updated: 2026-05-06*