The Merchants War, Charles Stross
The Merchants War, Charles Stross
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The Merchants' War
Book Four of the Merchant Princes

Author: Charles Stross

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 14 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2015

Synopsis

The story of the worldwalkers just got stranger in Charles Stross's The Merchants' War. More worlds, more surprises. And there's a war going on ...

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 shooting 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.

About Charles Stross

Charles Stross (he/him) is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry Files series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. He has won three Hugo Awards, including one for the Laundry Files novella “Equoid,” published on Tor.com. Born and raised in Leeds, England, he lives with his spouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading is the recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been named by AudioFile magazine as a “Voice of the Century,” as well as the Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy in 2008 and 2009 and Best Voice in Biography & Culture in 2010. She has narrated works by such authors as Jane Austen, Robert Jordan, Edith Wharton, and Sophie Kinsella. Reading has performed at numerous theaters in Washington D.C. and received a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in Aunt Dan and Lemon. AudioFile magazine reports that, "With subtle control of characters and sense of pacing, Kate’s performances are a consistent pleasure."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca

This book lost a star for ending mid-action. A series with an indefinite number of books is fine, but it's courteous to wrap up the immediate plot arc and give the reader a chance to "get off the bus" at the end of every book (or at least every book after the second).......more

Goodreads review by Майя

The "Clan Corporate" ends an episode that strongly resembles the wedding of Beatrix Kiddo in the movie of the times and peoples "Kill Bill". Adjusted for the wind: the celebration is not in the modest church somewhere in Texas, but in the capital-city. With all the pomp, possible the circumstances......more

Goodreads review by Baal Of

Really about a 2.5 stars, I'm finding this series frustrating. I'm not very engaged with the characters, and it's a bit of grind. Stross did introduce another? parallel world which has some intriguing possibilities, but hasn't really done much with it in this book. Perhaps that is to come. I don't l......more

Quotes

“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

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