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Praise for "The Merchants' War":
"Charles Stross's Merchant Princes novels are economic science fiction worth reading."
--Paul Krugman, "New York Times "bestselling author of" The Great Unraveling
""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
"For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top."
"--Publishers Weekly
""A fantastically thrilling series."
" --Booklist"
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Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. But do they want her as a leader or a figurehead? She soon finds herself thrown into a desperate struggle for power. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go trans dimensional.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A cracking series,
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This review is from: The Revolution Business (Merchant Princes) (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm loving this series of books. The fourth and this, the fifth, volumes have been real page turners.
The book does end on something of a cliff-hanger - but the sixth and, for the time being, final book is now published so I'll be investing in that very shortly. One interesting thing about reading this series is the divided loyalties you feel as a reader. There's not exactly a clear 'good' or 'bad' side of the unfolding events, so you can end up rooting for a group of people who are actually terrorists and drug-traffickers! Anyway, it's a fun book, not to be taken too seriously, but well worth a read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too silly, and too much obscure politicking,
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This review is from: The Revolution Business (Merchant Princes) (Mass Market Paperback)
The fifth installment in the series, and series-itis is rearing its head I'm afraid. It's getting a bit silly and over-the-top (you could tell that from the cover: a dude in plate armour, with a Maxim gun to one side and, errm, a nuke going off in the background) but that I can live with. It's fiction, it's entertainment, not serious literature. Unfortunately, there's rather too much politicking and I get the feeling that some fairly important background has been edited out in the process of turning the three huge books that were planned into six small books. That politicking is too opaque to the reader and takes away from the silly entertainment. And there's no chance at all that this would work in isolation - if you've not read the previous books, this will score nul points.
I still got some enjoyment from it, but there were too many points, especially in the last quarter, when I came close to just putting the book down and not finishing it. So I'm afraid that I can't recommend this.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ooh, what a cliffhanger!,
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This review is from: The Revolution Business (Merchant Princes) (Hardcover)
If you haven't read any of the merchant prince novels because you've read other Charles Stross science fiction and think you won't like them, you're wrong, you will love these books.
If I'm being really honest I wish I'd waited and read the previous one, this one and the next one all at the same time as they read like one big novel, with a cliff hanger ending in the last one and this one. But the series is very compelling and I just have to read them as they appear because of the cliff hanger endings, which is the point of them I guess. There's nothing worse than waiting a year or more for the next in a series and just loosing interest completely in the intervening time, (David Louis Edelman springs to mind here). There is one more coming next year to finish off this storyline but this series could run and run, there is just so much there to explore in the worlds Stross has created, and every book teases us just a little more with the back story. This is an absolutely essential read but not for someone to pick up who hasn't read the previous books in the series, it doesn't stand alone. I'd thoroughly recommend going and getting the first one, by the time you've tracked them all down and read them, there will only be a short delay until The Trade of Queens is published. My only regret is not being able to wait a month after it was published to get it for this price, I paid an American book chain twice as much and by the time it arrived it was on amazon uk for less. Ho hum.
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