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Posts Tagged ‘Charles Stross’

Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow

A few weeks back the Open Rights Group hosted a benefit talk in Central London called Resisting The All-Seeing Eye that I couldn’t go to as it clashed with our own festival. It was about privacy and surveillance in the modern world and featured two authors, Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow, both pretty outspoken [...]

The Clan Corporate

By Charles Stross
After reading the excellent first two books in this series, The Family Trade and The Hidden Family I was pleased as punch when The Clan Corporate, third instalment of this continuing saga, dropped onto the doormat.
Following the shenanigans at the end of the last book, savvy technology journalist and erstwhile cross-world entrepreneur, Miriam [...]

Charles Stross - Book Signing

Highly regarded science fiction and fantasy author CHARLES STROSS will be signing copies of his new novel, THE CLAN CORPORATE, the latest installment in the Merchant Princes series, at Waterstone’s West End, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh on Thursday 11th December at 6.00pm
Don’t forget, Christmas is coming and a signed book always makes a lovely [...]

Book Review - The Hidden Family

By Charles Stross
When I reviewed the first in this series, The Family Trade, I remember being blown away by how such a simple premise could be made into such a gripping thriller. I’m pleased to say that part two of the series, The Hidden Family, carries on in the same tradition.
We rejoin Miriam in [...]