Merchant Princes / The Bloodline Feud

CHARLES STROSS (he/him) is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale "Equoid." His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children.

Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world's first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.

"Great Fun!" -Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist on The Merchant Princes series

"Stross brings to fantasy the same kind of sly humor and clear-eyed extrapolation that he previously brough to space opera and horror...presented with great wit and high suspense." -San Francisco Chronicle on The Merchant Princes series

"A marvelous romp through this world and others, told by a master of the imaginative thrill-ride." -Karl Schroeder on The Merchant Princes series

"A fantastically thrilling series." -Booklist on The Merchant Princes series

"Totally off the wall and delightful." -Anne McCaffrey on The Merchant Princes series

"An alternate world that is fascinating and original...it's simply a great adventure, full of danger, of plots within plots, of forbidden love and political murder." -Orson Scott Card on The Merchant Princes series

"Stross gives us an escape fanatsy that is most seductive , indeed." -Salon.com on The Merchant Princes series

"Inventive, irreverent, and delightful...an alternate world where business is simultaneously low and high tech, and where romance, murder, marriage, and business are hopelessly intertwined--and deadly." -L. E. Modesitt, Jr. on The Merchant Princes series

"Fans of the author's previous work will recognize his trademark skill at world building-you can almost see the filth on the streets of New England, feel the closeted oppression of the Clan hierarchy, and experience Miriam's terror at the horrifying circumstances she finds herself in." -SciFiNow on The Merchant Princes series

"A rollicking, pacy read and delivers on the fun." -Interzone