2 Merchant Princes Omnibuses by Charles Stross (1-2)
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Overview: Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005 and 2010 Hugo awards for best novella, Stross’s works have been translated into over twelve languages.
Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped-catastrophes in the past, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stake-out) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing he tried to change employer just as the bubble burst).
The Merchant Princes is a series in which some humans have an ability to travel between parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology. This series is science fiction, even though it was originally marketed by the publisher as fantasy.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Bloodline Feud (Merchant Princes Omnibus #1): The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross includes The Family Trade and The Hidden Family – the first two instalments of The Merchant Princes series combined in one volume.
Miriam Beckstein is a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine. So when she discovers a huge money-laundering scam, she thinks she’s hit the big time. But when she takes it to her editor, not only is she fired, but she starts to receive death threats. And that’s just the beginning.
To distract her furious daughter, Miriam’s adoptive mother unearths mementos from her real mother, murdered when she was an infant. But these reveal a secret that will ultimately throw entire governments into disarray. For what Miriam thinks is a simple locket has the power to fling her into an alternate timeline. In this less-developed world, knights on horseback wield automatic weapons, and world-skipping assassins lurk – all on the other side of our reality. Here, her true family runs a criminal empire – and they want her back. But Miriam has other plans.
Following The Bloodline Feud are two further omnibus volumes, The Traders’ War and The Revolution Trade.
The Traders’ War (Merchant Princes Omnibus #2): The Traders’ War by Charles Stross includes The Clan Corporate and The Merchants’ War, the third and fourth installments in the spellbinding The Merchant Princes series combined into one volume.
The journalistic instinct runs deep – and comes with a fatality warning.
Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was fired – then discovered, to her shock, that her lost family comes from an alternate reality. And although some of them are trying to kill her, she won’t stop digging up secrets. Now that she knows she’s inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there’s a new culture to explore.
Her alternate home seems located around the Middle Ages, making her world-hopping relatives top dogs when it comes to ‘importing’ guns and other gadgets from modern-day America. Payment flows from their services to US drug rings – after all, world-skipping drug runners make great traffickers. In a land where women are property, she struggles to remain independent. Yet her outsider ways won’t be tolerated, and a highly political arranged marriage is being brokered behind her back. If she can stay alive for long enough to protest.
The Traders’ War is preceded by The Bloodline Feud omnibus, and followed with the final volume, The Revolution Trade.
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