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Bezig met laden... The Traders' Wardoor Charles Stross
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Second book in the Merchant Princes revised series; Miriam aka Helge is not settling well into her medieval princess role, instead getting into various trouble that leaves her much more powerless than a standard protagonist. But lots of politics are happening in all three worlds and she gets caught up in all of them. Also, various wars break out and there is a forced pregnancy (via reproductive technology). It is interesting but tends in the direction of “humans inevitably screw things up one way or another.” I'm ambivalent about this series: most of Stross's flaws are absent - no Luggage Syndrome! - but somehow it's not the page turner most of his books are. Thinking about why that is led me to two conclusions. Firstly the characters are not that interesting. Secondly, the characteristic Stross humour is conspicuous by its absence. There's another volume combining books five and six that wraps up the series and I'll likely read it some time, because I'm just invested enough to want to see how things turn out. This is the 3rd book in a 'collection series', it contains books 3 and 4 of the original series. Stross imagines a multitude of parallel Earths, with different timelines. Miriam Beckstein, from 'our' timeline, has been returned to the Gruinmarkt, a feudal kingdom in the NE USA. Her mother and grandmother start fighting over Miriam's fate, helping to set off many events. In another timeline, the kingdom of New Britain is also about to have political trouble and Miriam is on the wrong side there too. With the Feds from our timeline interested in what she knows, she's hunted on 3 worlds and doesn't know where to turn. I thought this was interesting and engaging. I wanted to read it, but I keep wondering, where is he going with this? Is this about building a 'better' world than what we have? It will be interesting to see what happens in the next book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The journalistic instinct runs deep - and comes with a fatality warning.Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was fired - then discovered, to her shock, that her lost family comes from an alternate reality. And although some of them are trying to kill her, she won't stop digging up secrets. Now that she knows she's inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there's a new culture to explore.Her alternate home seems located around the Middle Ages, making her world-hopping relatives top dogs when it comes to 'importing' guns and other gadgets from modern-day America. Payment flows from their services to US drug rings - after all, world-skipping drug runners make great traffickers. In a land where women are property, she struggles to remain independent. Yet her outsider ways won't be tolerated, and a highly political arranged marriage is being brokered behind her back. If she can stay alive for long enough to protest.The Traders' War by Charles Stross includes The Clan Corporate and The Merchants' War, the third and fourth instalments in the spellbinding The Merchant Princes series combined into one volume. The Traders' War is preceded by The Bloodline Feud omnibus, and followed with the final volume, The Revolution Trade. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Compilation of the third and fourth volumes of the Merchant Princes series, in which our protagonist and her ex-boyfriend are entangled in dynastic feuds in a family who have the ability to walk between parallel universes; our own, and two others, one more feudal, one more eighteenth-century, the action in all cases set in what we call the northeastern USA, most of whose population are descended from settlers across the ocean. The first compilation volume was The Bloodline Feud.
Stross’s heroine makes an early mistake here, trying to bring her know-how from our world to gain power and status in the feudal society of her origin, but over-reaching and then having to deal with the consequences of dynastic displeasure, while the dance of intelligence services around one another between the worlds gets steadily more intricate and nasty. The pace continues to be intense and well constructed. Great stuff. ( )