The Hidden Family: Book Two of Merchant Princes22 reviews Charles Stross Tor Fantasy, 2006 !ping! fulfills promise of book one + Entertaining mix of fantasy & economics. + Good followup to Family Trade + Not Free SF Reader + An Improvement             The Atrocity Archives46 reviews Charles Stross Ace Trade, 2006 Trifecta + ISO-9000 Compliant Demonology + Get past the geek-fu and you have more original ideas per chapter ... + Call of Cthulhu meets James Bond meets Dilbert + Lovecraftian sly spy thriller             Halting State54 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2007 Good Extrapolation about the Future I had never read any Charles Stross before. I found this to be a great book, well written with a nice, flowing style. The ideas about what the future will bring in the next few decades were believable and interesting, as was the story. A good read. I recommend it.             Glasshouse43 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2006 Incredible, even as a standalone + "In the Village" Sometimes I like to go into bookstores and buy a book at random without reading the description. I did that with Glasshouse, and I was very pleased. Apparently it's part of a series, but I read it as a standalone novel and understood everything. Stross is incredibly creative, and the book is ...             Toast6 reviews Charles Stross Cosmos, 2005 if you like Stross, a must read. + optimistic projections + A worthwhile collection from a promising new talent in science fiction. ANTIBODIES alone is worth the price of admission on this book. Significant for readinig Stross' getting up to speed work and some of these stories are classic SF in their own right.             Accelerando (Singularity)84 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2005 Picking up the shattered pieces of my pre acceleration brain + A pretty amazing book. I believe Cory Doctorow said it best when he said something like 'makes hallucinogens obsolete' This book is brain meltingly lovely. Instead of being sci fi to inspire the dreams of yesterday (which seems to be so much of what's out there), Stross creates sci fi that is truly future speculative ...             Saturn's Children25 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2008 Ignore the all the reviews posted by Americans + Better than expected! This is one hell of an entertaining and thought provoking book. Again, the book is almost entirely centred on a female character - one Freya Nakamachi - Baroque and Renaissance musician, professional concubine and kick-arse cybernetic dame! (you gotta be interested after a resumé like that!?) One ...             On Her Majesty's Occult Service2 reviews Charles Stross Science Fiction Book Club, 2007 Amazingly undefinable, terrifically readable - don't miss it! + Pleasant, worth reading "On Her Majesty's Occult Service" consists of two main books, The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue. The world that Stross has created is our world, but just one-half step over ... maybe. Or maybe not - maybe he has just provided us with the real story for the first time? Who knows? ...             Singularity Sky69 reviews Charles Stross, 2003 Wonderful but probably not for everyone I personally was absolutely spellbound by this book. Wonderful creative ideas: A space-going civilization called "The Festival" that attacks by raining down telephones that, if you pick on up, will grant you your every wish if you only tell it a story... "The Eschaton", a sort-of god that evolved ...             The Clan Corporate: Book Three of The Merchant Princes25 reviews Charles Stross Tor Fantasy, 2007 An important 'bridge' to the Merchant Princes series Let us be honest, this series is not Stross at his finest. His other books like Iron Sunrise, Singularity Sky, Accelerando, Glasshouse and The Atrocity Acrhives are far more creative and cutting edge stories. Nevertheless, I find this Merchant Princes series readable and this book in particularly I ...             The Family Trade (Merchant Princes)45 reviews Charles Stross Tor Fantasy, 2005 Fresh and enjoyable This definitely isn't your average, run-of-the-mill fantasy novel. In fact, if you tilt your head just so, it can legitimately look an awful lot like science fiction. Which makes sense, actually, 'cause Charles Stross has made his reputation as a hard sci-fi author, and he brings that same kind ...             The Jennifer Morgue1 review Charles Stross Little, Brown Book Group, 2007 Super Reader What do you get if you cross a) Lovecraft b) James Bond c) A bunch of computer geekery The answer, in this case, is a really good book. Presuming you have some interest in any of the above. The supervillain of the piece wants to control the world, of course, but with Deep Ones in the ...             The Merchants' War: Book Four of the Merchant Princes15 reviews Charles Stross Tor Books, 2007 Fourth Book in the Series shares strengths and weaknesses of its predecessors + When it's good, it's very very good. When it's not... it's okay. + Not Free SF Reader The Merchants War is the fourth book in Charles Stross series about a clan of world-walking drug dealers, and the book shares the strengths and the weaknesses of the previous volumes and ramps up the action and plot nicely. Book Three, Clan Corporate ended with a marriage announcement and ...             Iron Sunrise36 reviews Charles Stross, 2004 Great SF is alive and well with Stross.. I really like this book..it's even better than Singularity Sky which precedes it and has many of the same main characters. It's a fast paced story with interesting and quirky characters. Fun stuff with many twists and suspense.             Missile Gap10 reviews Charles Stross Subterranean Press, 2006 Great book + A fun novella... + our past is our future... + Important note regarding the signed limited printing. + An impressive book! WILL NOT BE REPRINTED.             Toast6 reviews Charles Stross Cosmos, 2005 if you like Stross, a must read. + optimistic projections + A worthwhile collection from a promising new talent in science fiction. ANTIBODIES alone is worth the price of admission on this book. Significant for readinig Stross' getting up to speed work and some of these stories are classic SF in their own right.             The Family Trade (Merchant Princes)45 reviews Charles Stross Tor Fantasy, 2005 Fresh and enjoyable This definitely isn't your average, run-of-the-mill fantasy novel. In fact, if you tilt your head just so, it can legitimately look an awful lot like science fiction. Which makes sense, actually, 'cause Charles Stross has made his reputation as a hard sci-fi author, and he brings that same kind ...             Saturn's Children25 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2008 Ignore the all the reviews posted by Americans + Better than expected! This is one hell of an entertaining and thought provoking book. Again, the book is almost entirely centred on a female character - one Freya Nakamachi - Baroque and Renaissance musician, professional concubine and kick-arse cybernetic dame! (you gotta be interested after a resumé like that!?) One ...             Missile Gap10 reviews Charles Stross Subterranean Press, 2006 Great book + A fun novella... + our past is our future... + Important note regarding the signed limited printing. + An impressive book! WILL NOT BE REPRINTED.             Accelerando (Singularity)84 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2005 Picking up the shattered pieces of my pre acceleration brain + A pretty amazing book. I believe Cory Doctorow said it best when he said something like 'makes hallucinogens obsolete' This book is brain meltingly lovely. Instead of being sci fi to inspire the dreams of yesterday (which seems to be so much of what's out there), Stross creates sci fi that is truly future speculative ...