Charles Stross

(born October 1964 - ) - Edinburgh

Charles Stross was born in Leeds, but now lives and works in Edinburgh. He is primarily known in the UK for his science fiction novels and short stories, but has also had success with fantasy and horror novels, particularly in the United States. His first published short story appeared in Interzone magazine in 1997. He is the author of (at least) eight novels; identifying the first of which to be published is rather difficult. His novels have been published out-of-order, and in different orders, in the USA and the UK.

His first UK success came with Singularity Sky (originally called 'Festival of Fools'), in 2003, and his most recent UK published novel is Halting State. His Merchant Princes series is now being published in the UK, with the first novel, The Family Trade, due in winter 2007. Charles Stross also makes a number of his books available as electronic eBooks, and has released his first, unpublished, work, Scratch Monkey, under a Creative Commons Licence.

A qualified pharmacist, Stross now works as a freelance journalist, programmer and technical author. He lives with his wife, Feòrag, and a number of cats.

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Accelerando - Hardback
The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of technical change is accelerating. Manfred makes his living from spreading ideas around, putting people in touch with one another and leaving a spray of technologies in his wake.
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The Clan Corporate - Paperback
Miriam Beckstein has been in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she soon discovers that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort.
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The Family Trade - Paperback
When Miriam Beckstein is fired from her job as a reporter, she is unaware that she is about to embark on a train of events that will transport her to a parallel Earth, where she must face up to the six evil clans who walk between the worlds growing in riches and power.
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Glasshouse - Paperback
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the 27th century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians.
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Halting State - Paperback
It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company, so you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches CCTV footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon. When the bodies of real people start to show up, it's clear that this is anything but a game.
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The Hidden Family - Paperback
The sequel to 'The Family Trade'. Miriam has discovered her alternate world relatives and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. In order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists.
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Iron Sunrise - Paperback
When the planet of New Moscow was brutally destroyed, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit - the neighbouring system of trade rival New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour is assigned to find out who was.
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The Jennifer Morgue: Plus Bonus Story 'Pimpf' And Afterword - The Golden Age Of Spying - Hardback
Bob Howard must save the world from eldritch horrors, codenamed Jennifer Morgue. Bob's current mission is to stop the evil Ellis Billington from achieving world domination, but he must overcome obstacles including the Gravedust device, which permits communication with the dead.
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The Merchants' War - Paperback
Miriam Beckstein has escaped to yet another world, and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not - something that she's really going to hate if she lives long enough to find out.
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The Revolution Business - Hardback
Things are going badly for the Clan. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once.
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Saturn's Children - Hardback
Freya Nakamachi-47 has some major existential issues. She's the perfect concubine, designed to please her human masters - hardwired to become aroused at the mere sight of a human male. There's just one problem: she came off the production line a year after the human species went extinct.
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Singularity Sky - Paperback
A battle fleet is sent from Earth to destroy the Festival, but engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat Rachel Mansour have been ordered to diffuse the crisis or to sabotage the New Republic's war-fleet, whatever the cost, before the Eschaton takes hostile action on a galactic scale.

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