The trade of queens

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303 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Tor.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-1673-8
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OCLC Number:
428027063

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4 stars (3 reviews)

After a nuclear explosion in Washington, D.C., kills the president, a dissident faction of the Clan from an alternate universe joins a faction of the U.S. government in a political takeover. There is no safe place for a pregnant Queen Miriam and her Clan except, perhaps, in the third alternate world, New Britain--which has just had a revolution and a nuclear incident of its own.

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reviewed The trade of queens by Charles Stross (Book six of The merchant princes)

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4 stars

It does not look like this is the end of this series. Too many loose threads.

Also, conservative readers seem to be upset about the very obvious insertion of Bush / Cheney / Rumsfeld in the story. Read the Amazon reviews and you'll get a good sample of "shut up and write sci-fi."

However, the last two volumes have been all over the place and it's not clear Stross knows where he's going with all this.

The series has enough materials to continue (and I can't figure out why HBO has not created a series based on this) but if this is the end of it, it's very unsatisfying.

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