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The Traders' War: A Merchant Princes Omnibus: The Clan Corporate & the Merchants' War
Contributor(s): Stross, Charles (Author)
ISBN: 0765378671     ISBN-13: 9780765378675
Publisher: Tor Books
OUR PRICE:   $23.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy - Contemporary
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Alternative History
Dewey: 813.6
Series: Merchant Princes
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (1.05 lbs) 624 pages
 
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The Traders' War -- an omnibus edition of the third and fourth novels in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series.

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 U.S. 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.

These books are immense fun.--Locus

Contributor Bio(s): Stross, Charles: - 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.