Read Series: The Merchant Princes
by Author Charles Stross
The Merchants' War (2007)
Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a fa...
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 Clan Corporate (2006)
Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade ) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is a lot too much like t...
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...