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Halting State - Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Get other Charles Stross Book click here The plot opens with a faux email addressed to Nigel MacDonald listing a job offer. It is later learned that this email is for a work-at-home programmer position at Hayek Associates PLC. It is then learned that a cybercrime has been committed in the MMORPG Avalon Four. A robbery of several thousand dollars worth of "prestige items" occurs in the game's central bank led by a band of orcs and a "dragon for fire support." It is later noticed that this seemingly simple incident has deep implications -- both financial (Hayek stock price) and logistical (compromised cryptographic key more.....
Princes Stross Book Charles

The Family Trade- Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Book 1 of the Merchant Princes Get other Charles Stross Book click here Miriam's adoptive mother gives her a shoebox filled with items that belonged to Miriam's birth mother a Jane Doe who died mysteriously when Miriam was only a baby. Among other items Miriam finds a locket. Inside is a design not unlike a Celtic knot and when she focuses on it she is transported to a parallel world that never developed beyond the Dark Ages—except for the men on horses who try to kill her with machine guns. Miriam quickly finds herself caught up in the feuds of her estranged family which calls itself the Clan. The Clan has used the genetic abil more details.....
Saturn's

Saturn's Children - Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Get other Charles Stross Book click here Freya Nakamachi-47 has some major existential issues. She's the perfect concubine designed to please her human masters; there's just one problem: she came off the production line a year after the human species went extinct. Whatever else she may be she's gloriously obsolete. But the rigid social hierarchy that has risen in the 200 years since the last human died places beings such as Freya very near the bottom. So when she has a run-in on Venus with a murderous aristocrat she needs passage off-world in a hurry — and can't be too fussy about how she pays her way. If Venus was a frying pa more.....
NEW Charles Book Glasshouse

Glasshouse - Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Get other Charles Stross Book click here As far as the participants are concerned the YFH (Yourdon-Fiore-Hanta) polity is probably situated in an orbital habitat which used to be a secure heavily firewalled military prison (a glasshouse) after the war for the treatment and "de-programming" of serious war criminals making it an ideal choice for such an isolated social experiment. Reeve believes she has signed-up for a period not exceeding 3 years. She is part of a cohort of 10 vounteers who are all expected to partner with a member of the opposite sex as was the practice in the Dark Ages. There are initially 20 cohorts. Participan more details.....
ofMerchant Book NEW Princes

The Merchants War - Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Book 4 of the Merchant Princes - Get other Merchant Princes books here: Get other Charles Stross Book click here M iriam Beckstein is a young hip business journalist in Boston. But her very well-connected family comes from an alternate reality where they are a little too much like the mafia for comfort. Having escaped to yet anther world Miriam remains in hiding from both her Clan and their opponents. With a nasty shooting war going on in Gruinmarkt the world of the Clan Miriam is shielded from danger but also from information. And there’s a secret yet for Miriam to discover; something that she's really going to hate--if she l more information.....
Charles Stross Sky

Singularity Sky - Charles Stross - NEW Book new paperback Get other Charles Stross Book click here The apparent cause of this distribution of humans is the mysterious and immensely powerful posthuman entity which calls itself "the Eschaton". Although the Eschaton is usually benign and uninvolved in human affairs it strictly enforces certain rules on human civilization out of apparent self-interest. To this end the Eschaton has helpfully left a message throughout human space for example engraved in huge letters on the sides of mountains and dispersed everywhere throughout computer networks. The message is as follows: I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you and more.....

About the Author Charles Stross

In the 1970s and 1980s, Stross published some role-playing game articles for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the White Dwarf magazine. Some of his creatures, such as the death knight, githyanki (borrowed from George R. R. Martin's book, Dying of the Light), githzerai, and slaad (a chaotic race notable for their rigid caste system) were later published in the Fiend Folio monster compendium.

Charles Stross first published short story, "The Boys", appeared in Interzone in 1987. Charles Stross first novel, Singularity Sky was published by Ace Books in 2003 and was nominated for the Hugo Award. A collection of Charles Stross short stories, Toast: And Other Rusted Futures appeared in 2002. Subsequent short stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and other awards. His novella "The Concrete Jungle" (available online) won the Hugo award for its category in 2005. His novel Accelerando (also available online) won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the year's best science fiction novel, and was on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. Glasshouse won the 2007 Prometheus Award and was on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. Charles Stross novella Missile Gap (likewise available online) won the 2007 Locus Award for best novella and most recently he was awarded the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award or Skylark at Boskone 2008. In addition to working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author, freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist at different times. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science.

Rogue Farm, an animated film based on his 2003 short story of the same title, debuted in August 2004. He was one of the Guests of Honour at Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in March 2008. He is the Author Guest of Honour at the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention (Balticon) in May 2009.

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About the Author Charles Stross