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Product Description: Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well...read more
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9780765329103 | Tor Books, September 4, 2012, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.

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Product Description: Bob Howard may be humanity’s last hope. Start praying… For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast-track for promotion to management within The Laundry, the super-secret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats...read more
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9781937007461 | Ace Books, July 3, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Bob Howard may be humanity’s last hope.

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Product Description: Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content...read more
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9780441020348 | Ace Books, July 5, 2011, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "The most spectacular science fiction writer of recent years" (Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End) presents a near-future thriller.

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9781937007669 | Ace Books, June 26, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad.

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Product Description: The 2011 Boskone Book by Boskone s Guest of Honor Charles Stross. It contains his previously unpublished novel, Scratch Monkey, an essay about writing the novel, and a second essay about a writer's view of publishing. The novel is set in the distant future, when humans have spread through the galaxy, physically and virtually...read more
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9781886778993 | Reprint edition (Nesfa Pr, September 1, 2011), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The 2011 Boskone Book by Boskone s Guest of Honor Charles Stross.

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Product Description: Computational demonologist Bob Howard is catching up on his filing in the Laundry archives when a top secret dossier known as the Fuller Memorandum vanishes-along with his boss, who is suspected of stealing the file. And while dealing with Russian agents, ancient demons, and a maniacal death cult, Bob must find the missing memorandum before the world ends up disappearing next...read more
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9780441018673 | 1 edition (Ace Books, July 6, 2010), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: View our feature on Charles Stross' The Fuller Memorandum.

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9780441020508 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, June 28, 2011), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Computational demonologist Bob Howard is catching up on his filing in the Laundry archives when a top secret dossier known as the Fuller Memorandum vanishes-along with his boss, who is suspected of stealing the file.

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9781101455845 | Ace Books, July 6, 2010, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: 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 them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States...read more
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9780765316738, titled "The Trade of Queens" | 1 edition (Tor Books, March 16, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: 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 them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States.

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9781429952262 | Tor Books, July 20, 2010, cover price $0.99

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Product Description: The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn's Children delivers a selection of speculative fiction brought together in one collection, showdcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries...read more
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9780441017195 | Ace Books, July 7, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" (Denver Post) in his first major short story collection.

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9780441018932 | Ace Books, June 29, 2010, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn's Children delivers a selection of speculative fiction brought together in one collection, showdcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.

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9781429914864 | Tor Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $6.99

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Things are going badly for the Clan in this new 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, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan’s leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. But do they want her as a leader or a figurehead? She soon finds herself thrown into a desperate struggle for power. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional.
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9780765316721 | Tor Books, April 14, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross.

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9781429996815 | Tor Books, March 22, 2010, cover price $7.99

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9781429940771 | Tor Books, March 16, 2010, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: 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, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once...read more
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9780765355904 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, February 2, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Things are going badly for the Clan in this SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross.

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Product Description: The name is Howard. Bob Howard. Please don't hurt me... Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker for The Laundry, must stop a ruthless billionaire from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue" from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world...
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9781930846456 | Golden Gryphon Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Bob Howard—a T-shirt–wearing computer geek and field agent for the super-secret British government agency The Laundry—must save the world from eldritch horrors, codenamed Jennifer Morgue, in this fast-paced spy thriller.

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9780441018147 | Ace Books, December 29, 2009, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The name is Howard.
9780441016716 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, January 6, 2009), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for "The Laundry," must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue," from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world.

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Product Description: Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.
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9781930846258 | Golden Gryphon Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The father of modern computer science, Alan Turning paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when used by Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS to perform a summoning, results in an unexpected evil brought to Earth through a portal to an alternate universe.

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9780441016686 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, December 30, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis.
9780441013654 | Ace Books, January 3, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Computer science guru Alan Turning paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that Nazi Germany uses to perform a summoning, bringing an unexpected evil to Earth through a portal to an alternate universe.

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Product Description: Miriam 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...read more
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9780765316714 | Tor Books, October 16, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Miriam seeks refuge from the machinations of both the Clan and their opponents by escaping to yet another world, only to discover that there is a nasty war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan and that unexpected perils await her.

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9780765355898 | Reprint edition (Tor Fantasy, September 30, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip business journalist in Boston.

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Product Description: Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars...read more
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9780441015948 | Ace Books, July 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct—leaving only androids behind.

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Product Description: Now in paperback?from the author of Saturn?s Children.In the year 2018, a daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four...read more
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9780441014989 | Ace Books, October 2, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.

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9780441016075 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, June 24, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Now in paperback?

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Product Description: Cuando Robin se despierta en una clínica, habiendo perdido la mayor parte de la memoria, no tarda mucho en descubrir que hay alguien que está intentando matarlo. Estamos en el siglo XXVII, cuando el viaje interestelar se hace por puertas de teletransporte y las guerras se llevan a cabo mediante gusanos de red que censuran la personalidad de los refugiados, tomando como punto de mira a los historiadores...read more
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9788496692664 | Italian edition edition (Via Magna, September 17, 2007), cover price $57.95 | About this edition: Cuando Robin se despierta en una clínica, habiendo perdido la mayor parte de la memoria, no tarda mucho en descubrir que hay alguien que está intentando matarlo.

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A third installment of the series that began with The Family Trade and The Hidden Family finds young business journalist Miriam Beckstein struggling with the belief systems of her chauvinistic, mafia-style alternate-reality family, a situation that is challenged when she is targeted as a prospective bride for a brain-damaged prince. Reprint.
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9780765348227 | Reprint edition (Tor Fantasy, August 28, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A third installment of the series that began with The Family Trade and The Hidden Family finds young business journalist Miriam Beckstein struggling with the belief systems of her chauvinistic, mafia-style alternate-reality family, a situation that is challenged when she is targeted as a prospective bride for a brain-damaged prince.

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Awakening in a clinic with amnesia, Robin goes on the run from unknown enemies out to kill him, volunteering to take part in the Glasshouse, an experimental polity simulating a pre-accelerated culture in which he will be assigned an anonymous identity, but he experiences radical changes that threaten everything. Reprint.
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9780441014033 | Ace Books, June 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him.

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9780441015085 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, June 26, 2007), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Awakening in a clinic with amnesia, Robin goes on the run from unknown enemies out to kill him, volunteering to take part in the Glasshouse, an experimental polity simulating a pre-accelerated culture in which he will be assigned an anonymous identity, but he experiences radical changes that threaten everything.

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Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, joined by a disaffected teenager, who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist, race against time to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow before Moscow's few survivors launch a counter-attack against the neighboring system of New Dresden.
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9788498003147 | Italian edition edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, June 22, 2007), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, joined by a disaffected teenager, who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist, race against time to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow before Moscow's few survivors launch a counter-attack against the neighboring system of New Dresden.

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Product Description: It's 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing -- and the Earth is flat. It's been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continents loom above tropical seas, offering a new start to colonists like newly-weds Maddy and Bob, and the hope of further glory to explorers like ex-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: but nobody knows why they exist, and outside the circle of exploration the universe is inexplicably warped...read more
By J. K. Potter (illustrator) and Charles Stross
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9781596060586 | Subterranean, December 31, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: It's 1976 again.

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Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically attempting to annihilate all biological lifeforms. Reprint.
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9780441012848 | Ace Books, July 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically attempting to annihilate all biological lifeforms.

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9780441014156 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, June 27, 2006), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically attempting to annihilate all biological lifeforms.

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A third installment of the series that began with The Family Trade and The Hidden Family finds young business journalist Miriam Beckstein struggling with the belief systems of her chauvinistic, mafia-style alternate-reality family; a situation that is challenged when she is targeted as a prospective bride for a brain-damaged prince.
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9780765309303 | Tor Books, May 16, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A third installment of the series finds young business journalist Miriam Beckstein struggling with the belief systems of her chauvinistic, mafia-style alternate-reality family, a situation that is challenged when she is targeted as a prospective bride for a brain-damaged prince.

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In a second installment of the series beginning with The Family Trade, Boston journalist Miriam, known as Lady Helge to her alternate timeline family, applies modern business and scientific practices to three other worlds, with unexpected consequences. Reprint.
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9780765313478 | Tor Books, June 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Boston journalist Miriam, known as Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth to her alternate-world family, applies modern business and scientific practices to three different timelines with unexpected consequences.

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9780765352057 | Reprint edition (Tor Fantasy, May 1, 2006), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Boston journalist Miriam, known as Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth to her alternate-world family, applies modern business and scientific practices to three different timelines with unexpected consequences.

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