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CLAN CORPORATE, THE (Merchant Princes) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Charles Stross (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Tor; Reprint edition (1 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765348225
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765348227
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 217,463 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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""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
"Stross and his feisty heroine are currently about the best practitioner and heroine the old motif boasts, and many are and will be the readers hoping for more than the three volumes they've given us so far." --"Booklist"
"Stross is a cunning writer." -"Locus" on "The Clan Corporate"
"Charles Stross's Family Trade series continues strong with "The Clan Corporate,"" --"Analog" "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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'A healthy dose of brainy, energetic and mind-expanding fun.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Third of the Merchant Princes, 18 Jul 2006
By D. A. Harris "davidharris52" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Clan Corporate (Merchant Princes) (Hardcover)
This is the third of a continuing series, a parallel worlds saga spanning (so far) three different timelines. I think it's safe to say that if you are still reading at book 3, then you enjoy the series - and if you don't like them, you will have stopped. Either way I don't think this will change your mind.

For my part, I am enjoying this series. I don't think they're great writing, but I like seeing Stross set out his canvas and set to work filling in the detail. And I find the central dilemma of Miriam, the main protagonist, interesting.

That said, this volume is mildly frustrating because, apart from one or two jaunts, Miriam is - frankly - trapped through most of the book, unable to drive the plot forward, but only to react - hence only three stars.

Developments are brewing but they don't really link up before the end of the book. I think there will probably be fireworks in the next installment (due in 2007?) which I certainly look forward to.
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3.0 out of 5 stars No 3 - not the best one of them, 21 Jul 2006
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This review is from: The Clan Corporate (Merchant Princes) (Hardcover)
Miriam is definitely stuck in this book. She is discovering just what her role is in this mideval society that her relatives come from. Things are not quite as black and white as she might have thought and her enemies are not always who she had thought. Friends are being shunted to the side or even killed and Miriam is left increasingly alone in a society where a woman's role is to bear children - period.

For Miriam this is incredibly unfair. She feels that she has built a successful business in world 3 - a business that is left in the hands of a less than competent male relative. Her life is in increasing danger from her uncles and her mother is manipulating things in a manner that leaves Miriam feeling more and more helpless.

The ending was a bit abrupt and extremely unfinished - intentional on the part of the author I'm certain. This way we HAVE to buy no. 4.

I have enjoyed this series. This book is no exception.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Enough with the cliffhanger endings, 1 Feb 2009
This review is from: The Clan Corporate (Merchant Princes 3) (Paperback)
A disappointment after the first two books. Stross is a very good novelist but the writing in this book feels rushed with too much anachronistic dialogue and slow plot development. It is also a great shame that he resorts to manipulating the reader with these cliffhanger endings. Other writers seem able to deliver long-running series with multiple story arcs yet at the same time provide a coherent, self-contained narrative to each book. If he carries on in this stlye, all Charles Stross will do is end up alienating fans.
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