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The Revolution Trade: The Revolution Business / The Trade of Queens (Merchant Princes, Bks 5-6)
The Revolution Trade The Revolution Business / The Trade of Queens - Merchant Princes, Bks 5-6 Author:Charles Stross The Revolution Trade: an omnibus edition of the fifth and sixth novels in The Merchant Princes series. There exists a number of parallel worlds all of which are on the same geographical Earth, but with different societies at different points of development. Some humans, members of a certain bloodline, have an ability to travel, al... more »ong with their immediate possessions, between these parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology.
Contents:
The Revolution Business (Merchant Princes, Bk 5): Things are going badly for the Clan. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. But do they want her as a leader or a figurehead? She soon finds herself thrown into a desperate struggle for power. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional.
The Trade of Queens (Merchant Princes, Bk 6): A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States. Now they will exterminate the rest of the Clan and keep Miriam alive only long enough to bear her child, the heir to the throne of their land in the Gruinmarkt world. The worst and deepest secret is now revealed: behind the horrifying plot is a faction of the US government itself, preparing for a political takeover in the aftermath of disaster. There is no safe place for 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.