Book description
Miriam Beckstein, a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in
Boston, finds iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme. 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 received a locket left by the mother she never knew - the mother
who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knot work pattern,
which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she's
transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on
horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where
world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality - a
world where her true family runs things. 'Fast, funny, busily inventive
. . . [Stross] is the crème de la crème' Locus 'Science fiction is in
good hands with Charles Stross here to lead the new generation' Orson
Scott Card
Charles Stross lives with his wife in Edinburgh. In addition to
working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author,
freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist. He holds degrees in
Pharmacy and Computer Science. His short fiction has been shortlisted
for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
