The Clan Corporate: The Merchant Princes 3 - Brossura

Stross, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0765348225 ISBN 13: 9780765348227

Casa editrice: Tor Fantasy, 2007

Riassunto

A third installment of the series that began with The Family Trade and The Hidden Family finds young business journalist Miriam Beckstein struggling with the belief systems of her chauvinistic, mafia-style alternate-reality family, a situation that is challenged when she is targeted as a prospective bride for a brain-damaged prince. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

Product Description:

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?

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• Editore: Tor Fantasy
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0765348225
• ISBN 13: 9780765348227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310