Author: Charles Stross Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Award winners, Science fiction
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ISBNs: 9780765309303 9780765348227 0765309300 0765348225 |
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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 the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with the fact that women are family property and required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds, she has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. And start a profitable business in a third world she has discovered, outside the family reach (recounted in The Hidden Family). She fell in love with a distant relative but he's dead, killed saving her life. There have been murders, betrayals. Now, however, in The Clan Corporate, she may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is for instance the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they'd never make her do that, would they?
This book is part of the "The Merchant Princes" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Revolution Trade" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Trade of Queens" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Merchants' War" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Hidden Family" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Family Trade" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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