Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time. To date, Stross has won two Hugo awards and been nominated twelve times. He has also won the Locus Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula Awards. In addition, his fiction has been translated into around a dozen languages. Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books, and an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers.
Shocks, surprises, reversals, and elaborations keep tumbling from Stross's nimble fingers ... These books are immense fun Locus on the Merchant Princes series Fantasies with this much invention, wit and gusto don't come along every day SFX on the Merchant Princes series One of the defining phenomena of twenty-first century SF is Charles Stross, for the quality of his work at its best Time Out on the Merchant Princes series The keen eye and what-if imagination of Charles Stross fuel a fresh look at alternate worlds David Brin