The Hidden Family

The Hidden Family

Author	Charles Stross
Cover artist	Paul Youll
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Merchant Princes
Genre	Alternate history, Science fiction novel
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	June 2005
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	303 pp
ISBN	0-7653-1347-2
OCLC	57286043
Dewey Decimal	813/.6 22
LC Class	PR6119.T79 H53 2005
Preceded by	The Family Trade
Followed by	The Clan Corporate

The Hidden Family is the second book of Charles Stross' alternate history, science fiction series The Merchant Princes. It completes the story begun in The Family Trade (2004); the two were originally written as one novel. They are followed by The Clan Corporate (2006), the first part of the second story.

Reception

Publishers Weekly in their review said "Stross continues to mix high and low tech in amusing and surprising ways. However, while giving a gritty SF portrait of the marvels of modern market economics and correcting the too pretty portrait of too many medieval fantasy lands, he sometimes overlooks the realities that constrain both. Still, less historically minded readers can lose themselves in Miriam's attempts to survive the Clan's equally dangerous high-stakes business and social games. Stross weaves a tale worthy of Robert Ludlum or Dan Brown."^[1] Roland Green reviewing the book for Booklist compared it to the early novels in Roger Zelazny's Amber series.^[2]

Awards

The Hidden Family was a finalist for the 2006 Prometheus Award^[3] and won the 2006 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.^[4]

Notes

↑ "THE HIDDEN FAMILY: Book Two of Merchant Princes". Publishers Weekly 252 (17): 43. April 25, 2005. ISSN 0000-0019.
↑ Green, Roland (June 1, 2005). "The Hidden Family". Booklist 101 (19/20): 1769. ISSN 0006-7385.
↑ "Libertarian Futurist Society". Archived from the original on 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
↑ "The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History". Retrieved 2008-11-04.

External links

The Bloodline Feud review at Upcoming4.me

Bibliography of Charles Stross

Eschaton series	Singularity Sky (2003) Iron Sunrise (2004)

Laundry series	The Atrocity Archives (2004) The Jennifer Morgue (2006) The Fuller Memorandum (2010) The Apocalypse Codex (2012) The Rhesus Chart (2014) The Annihilation Score (2015)

Merchant Princes series	The Family Trade (2004) The Hidden Family (2005) The Clan Corporate (2006) The Merchants' War (2007) The Revolution Business (2009) The Trade of Queens (2010)

Halting State series	Halting State (2007) Rule 34 (2011)

Saturn's Children series	Saturn's Children (2008) Neptune's Brood (2013)

Other fiction	"A Colder War" (2000) Toast: And Other Rusted Futures (2002) Accelerando (2005) Glasshouse (2006) "Missile Gap" (2007) Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross (2009) "Palimpsest" (2009) The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Cory Doctorow)

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