The Merchants' War (Merchant Princes) (The Merchant Princes) - Softcover

" 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.

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

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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.