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THE CLAN CORPORATE: BOOK THREE OF THE MERCHANT PRINCES.
New York: Tor, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. The continuing adventures of Miriam Beckstein and alternate worlds.
THE FAMILY TRADE: BOOK ONE OF THE MERCHANT PRINCES.
New York: Tor, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. A novel of a parallel Earth, reviewers comment it is more sf than fantasy, though marketed as a fantasy novel.
GLASSHOUSE.
New York: Ace Books, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. "GLASSHOUSE (2007) is set mainly in a kind of pocket universe within an isolated starship, featuring issues of gender and identity as the male protagonist is afflicted with amnesia and placed, as a female, in a dystopian artificial society recreating the sexism and oppressive religion of the forgotten "Dark Ages" (the latter twentieth century); there are interesting twists on matter transmission." - Graham Sleight and David Langford, SFE (online). Set in the same universe as ACCELERANDO (2005). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
GLASSHOUSE.
New York: Ace Books, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "GLASSHOUSE (2007) is set mainly in a kind of pocket universe within an isolated starship, featuring issues of gender and identity as the male protagonist is afflicted with amnesia and placed, as a female, in a dystopian artificial society recreating the sexism and oppressive religion of the forgotten "Dark Ages" (the latter twentieth century); there are interesting twists on matter transmission." - Graham Sleight and David Langford, SFE (online). Set in the same universe as ACCELERANDO (2005). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
HALTING STATE.
New York: Ace Books, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A near future police procedural involving cyberterror, gaming, and government operatives. "...Halting State is another winner for Charles Stross, a writer who has more than ably grabbed the high-tech baton from last century's forebears — Gibson, Sterling — and is still running laps with it, without any sign of tiring." - Review by Thomas Wagner at the SFReviews website.
THE HIDDEN FAMILY: BOOK TWO OF THE MERCHANT PRINCES.
New York: Tor, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. The continuing adventures of Miriam Beckstein and alternate worlds.
IRON SUNRISE.
New York: Ace Books, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A sequel to SINGULARITY SKY (2003). "...he [Stross] has also become one of the core figures of the modern SF field, winning Hugo Awards for short fiction twice and becoming the favorite SF writer of an entire generation of self-identified denizens of the hacker demimonde." - from the introduction to his short story Rogue Farm in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Tor, 2013). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1093.
THE JENNIFER MORGUE.
[Urbana, IL]: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Second book in the Laundry series, featuring Bob Howard, who works for the British government to fend off eldritch horrors; from the jacket copy: "...takes the reader on a wild adventure through the world of Lovecraft and Ian Fleming, non Euclidian mathematics and hackerdom..." Besides the title novel this book also includes a short story "Pimpf" which had previously appeared only online.
THE MERCHANT'S WAR: BOOK FOUR OF THE MERCHANT PRINCES.
New York: Tor, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. The continuing adventures of Miriam Beckstein and alternate worlds.
SINGULARITY SKY.
New York: Ace Books, 2003. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. "Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is IRON SUNRISE. New York: Ace, 2004." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. "...he [Stross] has also become one of the core figures of the modern SF field, winning Hugo Awards for short fiction twice and becoming the favorite SF writer of an entire generation of self-identified denizens of the hacker demimonde." - from the introduction to his short story Rogue Farm in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Tor, 2013). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1093.
SINGULARITY SKY.
[London]: Orbit, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First British hardcover edition. Signed by Stross on the title page. The author's first novel. "Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is IRON SUNRISE. New York: Ace, 2004." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. "...he [Stross] has also become one of the core figures of the modern SF field, winning Hugo Awards for short fiction twice and becoming the favorite SF writer of an entire generation of self-identified denizens of the hacker demimonde." - from the introduction to his short story Rogue Farm in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Tor, 2013). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1093.