The Trade of Queens: Book Six of the Merchant Princes. Charles Stross

The Trade of Queens: Book Six of the Merchant Princes



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Got home from work yesterday evening to find this on my doorstep. Thanks Mr Stross and UPS. I read it in one sitting. Impressions: 1. Well, yet again, we have the problem of presenting the back-story to people who've not read the series. The paragraphs that are used to do this (thankfully, just a couple) begin to read just a little like submissions to the Bulwer-Lytton contest. I was actually waiting for punchlines. 2. Cheney. Well. Wasn't that anti-climactic. The Prince of Darkness gets it all, and then loses it all. It was like the end of "The Glass Bead Game." You find yourself going "Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over?!?!?!!!" 3. Mr Stross writes a really cynical take on the USA. From raining fire on the generally innocent, to preparing itself to steal resources from wherever it can, there's no crime too low for the USA. Considering the way the USA has conducted itself in the last decade, this is completely unwarranted. Still, Europeans, what can you do? 4. All in all, it's a bit of a letdown, especially given that this is the last book of the series, at least for now. The first 60% or 70% of the book deals with the results of exploding a couple of nukes (I don't think I'm plot-spoiling - see the book's cover). Pretty predictable, and pretty forgettable. You know, everyone going "Oh crap! We're all going to die! I mean, unless we escape!" or "Meh, I refuse to accept reality." Meanwhile New Britain's revolution unfolds with a bit of a French odor and world-walking becomes less of a strategic advantage, unless you're world-walking U-2s and B-52s. In the end, the Clan sort-of gets away with it, the innocent and guilty are generally punished, and all sorts of loose ends are left for resolution in later books. Talk about the story that keeps on giving! I love the overall conceit of the series. The many-worlds idea, middle-ages mercantilists being dragged out of zero-sum games into the world of business plans, the in-fighting to the death, are all loads of fun. In the end, however, the story took so long to unfold that the horse was well-beaten to death by the time all was written and done.

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