Invisible Sun (Empire Games #3)

by Charles Stross

Mikka seemed to know what she was doing—she’d been in the Girl Scouts—

Colonel-General Wolf would be smiling, were there an Actually Existing Socialist Heaven for him to do so from. And they’d only just succeeded in time.

They’d given him a “Welcome to the Commonwealth” briefing booklet and there was some wild stuff in it: computer networks, real-time planning, a continuation and expansion of a thing called Project Cybersyn that had been suppressed in Chile in the 1970s by a US-ordered fascist coup—a plan to catch up that paralleled the way South Korea, Japan, and China had modernized in the twentieth century.

“Dr. Scranton.” The President smiled briefly. “Infodump me.”