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The Hidden Family



Charles Stross




PRAISE FOR THE MERCHANT PRINCES SERIES

The Family Trade

"Charles Stress's The Family Trade is an inventive, irreverent, and delightful
romp into an alternate world where business is simultaneously low and high tech,
and where romance, murder, marriage, and business are hopelessly intertwined—and
deadly." —L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

"Quirky, original, and entertaining. The Family Trade could

be The Godfather of all fantasy novels."

—Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of A Forest of Stars

"The Family Trade is one of those rare delights—a book that is fun,
intelligently written, and which leaves a reader breathlessly wondering what
will happen next. Readers Beware: Stross weaves a tale that continually builds
to an engrossing climax. Once you get into this, you'll find yourself hooked."
—David Farland

"The Family Trade shows that Charles Stross is no longer a beginner to watch,
but a star to watch." —Mike Resnick

"Stross not only creates an alternate world that is fascinating and original, he
even does the unheard of, for a fantasist: His depiction of our world is deep
and real. His characters behave in ways that make sense. They know all the
things they should know, and don't know the things they shouldn't. The result is
that we readers can trust this author completely, dive into this story and let
it carry us wherever the current flows. "Not to mention the fact that it's
simply a great adventure, full of danger, of plots within plots, of forbidden
love, and political murder." —Orson Scott Card

"The Hidden Family is a festival of ideas in action, fast moving and often very
funny, but underpinned by a rigorous logical strategy.... Stress's breezy,
almost Heinleinian mode of narration is on fine display."
—Locus

"Miriam Beckstein, aka Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth of the Clan, finds her own
world to conquer in this fast-moving sequel to The Family Trade.... Stress
continues to mix high and low tech in amusing and surprising ways.... [He]