The Family Trade
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429914871 (1429914874)
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Series: The Merchant Princes (#1)
I might have given this book a 2-star rating if it had managed to have its own story arc (instead of just being an installment in the series), but it really can't stand on its own. All it contains are an introduction to the world and some incidents. Then the book ends, and apparently we're suppose...
i think this suffered from my expectations of a charles stross book. took me forever to get through because i kept being distracted by other books (including books by stross that i absolutely love).
Miriam Beckstein works as a journalist and she's found evidence of money laundering, however instead of being a good thing it costs her her job. Then she receives a locket that she had when she was orphaned. Suddenly she finds herself in another world and she's part of the family who run things. ...
This was just okay. Oddly, it had exactly the opposite problem as the last (and only other, so far) Charles Stross novel I've read so far. Neither are enough to put me off reading more. When I read Singularity Sky, I found the writing very dense, and was often at sea, with no real idea what was goin...
Miriam Beckstein discovers an old locket among her birth mother's effects, and realizes that by gazing at it she can transport herself to a parallel world. Physically, the worlds are nearly identical, but her world has developed technologically far beyond the parallel world. Her long lost biologic...
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