Series: The Merchant Princes
by Author Charles Stross
The Hidden Family (2006)
The first book in this series started as a refreshing take on the world-walking motif, in which instead of people just being kings in a magic world and then occasionally coming home, they exploit arbitrage opportunities, bringing goods back and forth. It was an interesting spin. Unfortunately, it...
The Family Trade (2005)
I was under the impression that this was a science fiction book set in the far future, with a family that controlled merchant interests across a far-flung, loosely-connected human civilization. I was completely off the mark on that … and I couldn’t be happier. The word for this book, I think, is ...
The Trade Of Queens (2010)
The final book of Stross' "Merchant Princes" series (or the first Merchant Princes series, as it is open for a host of sequels), about the Clan: a family of dimension travelers from an alternate Earth. The protagonist of the series, Miriam Beckstein, was raised in America and, on discovering her...
The Revolution Business (2009)
A political rant disguised as alternate history/multiverse scifi. The earlier books in this series ranged from fair to very good. Stross' politicized self-righteous, and personal anger at the Bush Administration grafts itself into the storyline, cheapening the series and ultimately making it f...