Merchant Princes: The Trade of Queens (Series #06) (Hardcover)

from Fledgist

The final volume in this alternative history series. It manages to be alternative history for our own world (timelne) as well, with nukes exploding in Washington, DC. Stross manages to work several different strands together deftly in a tale in which genetics, politics, and even the War on Terror...

from tillwe

The end doesn't really sound like an end (nuclear devastion an all, but what about all the dangling subplots), but other than that, nice - and somewhat panic-inducing - entertainment by Stross.

from lithicbee

The sixth and final book in Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series (in the acknowledgments he says that this is the end of this storyline but the series is ongoing) does not bring the storyline to any more of a definitive ending than any of the previous five books. Perhaps when the storyline gro...

from jerevo

Below par for Stross, but still a reasonably satisfying conclusion to the series. The plot infodumps in the early chapters are inelegantly handled (he might as well have had a chapter entitled "Previously, in the Merchant Princes..."), and the political cynicism is laid on with a trowel, but the ...

from cissa

While I was feeling with #2-4 that this series was getting pretty random... #5 and 6 made up for it. They tied the storylines together brilliantly, and I appreciated the political commentary/perspective. I['m not sure it's worth reading all 6 novels, mind- but if you've already read 1-3, you may ...