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The Merchants' War (Merchant Princes)

The Merchants' War (Merchant Princes)

by Charles Stross (Author)

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    Mass Market Paperback 2008

    $3.28

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    Hardcover 2007

    $10.93
Synopsis

Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose.Now, in "The Merchants' War", Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate-if she lives long enough to find out.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 06 Dec 2008
ISBN 10: 0765355892
ISBN 13: 9780765355898

Media Reviews
The Clan Corporate offers more proof, if any were needed, why Charles Stross has become universally acknowledged as one of science fiction's major new talents. --Mike Resnick
& nbsp; The Hidden Family is a festival of ideas in action, fast moving and often very funny, but underpinned by a rigorous logical strategy. . . .Stross ' s breezy, almost Heinleinian mode of narration is on fine display in The Hidden Family . -- Locus
Stross continues to mix high and low tech in amusing and surprising ways. . . .[he] weaves a tale worthy of Robert Ludlum or Dan Brown. - Publishers Weekly on The Hidden Family
It's simply a great adventure, full of danger, of plots within plots, of forbidden love and political murder. --Orson Scott Card on The Family Trade

The Clan Corporate offers more proof, if any were needed, why Charles Stross has become universally acknowledged as one of science fiction's major new talents. --Mike Resnick
The Hidden Family is a festival of ideas in action, fast moving and often very funny, but underpinned by a rigorous logical strategy. . . .Stross's breezy, almost Heinleinian mode of narration is on fine display in The Hidden Family, -- Locus
Stross continues to mix high and low tech in amusing and surprising ways. . . .[he] weaves a tale worthy of Robert Ludlum or Dan Brown. - Publishers Weekly on The Hidden Family
It's simply a great adventure, full of danger, of plots within plots, of forbidden love and political murder. --Orson Scott Card on The Family Trade

For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top.
-- Publishers Weekly
The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words--it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real..... The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment.
--SciFi.com
Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses and hang-gliders. Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time!
--S.M. Stirling
The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series.
- -Booklist

For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top.
-- Publishers Weekly
The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words-it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real..... The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment.
--SciFi.com
Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses and hang-gliders. Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time!
--S.M. Stirling
The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thrille


For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top.
-- Publishers Weekly
The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words--it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real..... The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment.
--SciFi.com
Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses and hang-gliders. Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time!
--S.M. Stirling
The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series.
- -Booklist


For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top. Publishers Weekly

The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real..... The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment. SciFi.com

Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses and hang-gliders. Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time! S.M. Stirling

The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series. Booklist


For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top. Publishers Weekly

The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real..... The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment. SciFi.com

Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses and hang-gliders. Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time! S.M. Stirling

The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series. Booklist


For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top. --Publishers Weekly

The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real..... The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment. --SciFi.com

Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses and hang-gliders. Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time! --S.M. Stirling

The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series. --Booklist

Author Bio
Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.