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plots within plots, of forbidden love and political murder. Science fiction is
in good hands with Charles Stross here to lead the new generation."
тАФOrson Scott Card
"Charles Stress's "The Family Trade is an intuitive, irreverent, and delightful
romp into an alternate world where business is simultaneously low and high tech,
and were romance, murder, marriage, and business are hopelessly intertwinedтАФand
deadly." тАФE. Modesitt, Jr.

Book One of the Merchant Princes
Charles Stross
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fantasy
A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK NEW YORK
NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this
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publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for
this "stripped book."
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book
are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE FAMILY TRADE
Copyright ┬й 2004 by Charles Stress
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions
thereof, in any form.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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New York, NY 10010
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ISBN 0-765-34821-7
EAN 978-0765-34821-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004049576
First edition: December 2004
First mass market edition: May 2005
Printed in die United States of America 098765432
For Steve and Jenny Glover
No novelist works in a creative vacuum. Whatever we do, we owe a debt to the
giants upon whose shoulders we stand. This book might not have happened if I
hadn't read the works of H. Beam Piper and Roger Zelazny.
Nor would this book have been written without the intervention of several other
people. My agent, Caitlin Blaisdell, nudged me to make a radical change of
direction from my previous novels. David Hartwell of Tor encouraged me further,
and my wife, Feorag, lent me her own inimitable support while I worked on it.
Other friends and critics helped me in one way or another; I'd like to single
out for their contributions my father, Jan Goulding, Paul Cooper, Steve Glover,
Andrew Wilson, Robert "Nojay" Sneddon, Cory Doctorow, Sydney Webb, and James
Nicoll. Thank you all.