Charles Stross

Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

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The Labyrinth Index

Laundry Files

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor.com

“A bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres.” —The Washington Post Book World

The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended upon...

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The Delirium Brief

Laundry Files

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor.com

*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL CATEGORY*

“Smart, literate, funny.” —Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians

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The Rapture of the Nerds

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987's The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

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Dark State

Empire Games

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes...

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Empire Games

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross hits the ground running with Empire Games, provocative techno-thriller and fresh storyline in the Merchant Princes universe.

It’s 2020. ...

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The Revolution Trade

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

The Revolution Trade: an omnibus edition of the fifth and sixth novels--The Revolution Businessand Trade of Queens--in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series.

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The Traders' War

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

The Traders' War -- an omnibus edition of the third and fourth novels in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series.

Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston....

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The Bloodline Feud

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

The Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes series

The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind...

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Three Tales from the Laundry Files

Laundry Files

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

Enjoy two short stories and a novella from the Laundry Files. Originally published on Tor.com, these stories by Charles Stross continue the adventures of the Laundry, a secret division of the British...

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Equoid: A Laundry novella

Laundry Files

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside...

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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition

A Tor.Com Original

Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky, and David G. Hartwell, with stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat Murphy, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, and Gene Wolfe
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2012. Includes stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat...

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A Tall Tail

A Tor.Com Original

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

From the author of Rule 34 and Halting State, a tale of deception, engineering, and the most unlikely rocket propulsion technology imaginable.

At the Publisher's request,...

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The Trade of Queens

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Science Fiction

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...

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Down on the Farm

Laundry Files

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

In Charles Stross's novel The Atrocity Archive and its sequels, the "Laundry" is a secret British agency responsible for keeping dark interdimensional entitities from destroying the cosmos...

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Laundry Files

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities...

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The Family Trade

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Books

A bold fantasy in the tradition of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction!

Miriam Beckstein is happy...

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The Revolution Business

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Science Fiction

Things are going badly for the Clan in this SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein,...

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The Merchants' War

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Fantasy

Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that...

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The Clan Corporate

Merchant Princes

Charles Stross
Tor/Forge
Tor Fantasy

Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade ) that her family...

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