Stross - Merchant Princes

[olc]

I just finished book 6 The Trade of Queens.
Does anyone know if that is it? It seems like it sort of wraps up the series and he did not finish the book with a major cliff hanger like usual. On the other hand it has room to continue.

 

[Ian Whates]

I just finished book 6 The Trade of Queens.
Does anyone know if that is it? It seems like it sort of wraps up the series and he did not finish the book with a major cliff hanger like usual. On the other hand it has room to continue.

As far as I know, Charlie's intending this to be the final word for now, olc, but who knows what the future might bring?

 

[psikeyhackr]

Can Nobel Memorial Prize winning economists be trusted?

Stross on development economics

by PAUL KRUGMAN on JANUARY 27, 2009

My mission, should I choose to accept it "and I have" is to talk about the Merchant Princes novels. For anyone who is reading this without having read the full Stross collection, the MP novels concern a group of related individuals "the Clan" from an alternate universe, the Gruinmarkt, with a more or less medieval society, who have the ability to world-walk between that universe and our own.

Stross on development economics

My mission, should I choose to accept it – and I have – is to talk about the Merchant Princes novels. For anyone who’s reading this without having read the full Stross collection, the MP novels…

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1. The Family Trade (2004)
2. The Hidden Family (2005)
3. The Clan Corporate (2006)
4. The Merchants' War (2007)
5. The Revolution Business (2009)
6. The Trade of Queens (2010)

1 + 2: The Bloodline Fued (2013)
3 + 4: The Trader's War (2013)
5 + 6: The Revolution Trade (2013)

7. Empire Games (Jan 2017) 17 yrs after ToQ
8. Dark State (Jan 2018)
9. Invisible Sun (Sept 2021)

I didn't discover the Merchant Princes series until 2017 by finding out that Empire Games was part of a series and preceded by six books. I read all seven books and did not have to wait long for #8. Then Stross had a number of personal problems that delayed #9 for three years.

I got exceptionally interested in economics since reading The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood in 1976. So a prize winning economist commenting on an SF series because of economics is attention getting.

 

[tachyon]

I read the first book (The Family Trade) and wasn't super inspired to continue the series, I read synopses of the next couple of books and then rather forgot about it until Empire Games came out.

I did read the whole Empire Games trilogy and thought they were excellent.

 

[Vertigo]

I read the first three or four and quite enjoyed them but didn't like where it was going and so stopped. Unfortunately this
often happens with Stross for me. I love some of his work (Accelerando was brilliant!) but others leave me rather unmoved.

 

[psikeyhackr]

I did read the whole Empire Games trilogy and thought they were excellent.

Then you might like:

Daemon and Freedom™

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But even more technological.