The family trade
by Charles Stross · first published 2004
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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 in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered. Before the day is over, she's recei
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813407 And not to forget: "The sky was the color of a dead laptop display, silver-gray and full of rain." - Charles Stross, The Family Trade. 2004 "The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright cheery blue.!" - Robert J. Sawyer, Wake. 2009 There are probably more.
on “Obsolete Sounds: collection of disappearing sounds and extinct sounds” ↗…SF, modulo some additional plot device, whereas for sci-fantasy it has its own rules but they're not our rules. Say, an innate ability to step into other universes (say, Amber by Roger Zelazny, or the Family Trade by Charles Stross), or using a machine (the Long Earth books by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett). I take this line-vs-area argument from /Red/, /Green/ and /Blue Mars/ by Kim Stanley Robinson. Those…
on “It Awaits Your Experiments” ↗If it's anything like the Family Trade series of books then the economic or financial subject may only be used to colour the main plot and give a mood. I don't expect the author to actually be a "hard-economic" author like Stefan Baxter is…
on “Krugman’s Theory of Interstellar Trade” ↗