This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!
The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines π
#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline
As a big film guy, I also disagree - the Merchant Princes series would make great movies. The Laundry Files would be more difficult.
I'm reading the #MerchantPrinces series by @cstross, and I just came across this amazing quote:
"He's very conservative, my father, and he insisted I learn the feminine virtues: Deportment, dancing, embroidery, and marksmanship."
Man... Gotta love #ScienceFantasy #AltHistory novels. π€£
One of the best parts of reading @cstross novels is all the new words I learn
#5yrsago Motherboard files legal complaint against London police to force it to explain why an officer bought creepy, potentially illegal stalkerware https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmwnm3/metropolitan-police-flexispy-legal-complaint
#5yrsago Empire Games: @cstross starts a new phase in the #MerchantPrinces series, blending spycraft, Leninist thought experiments, and parallel dimensions https://memex.craphound.com/2018/02/09/empire-games-charlie-stross-starts-a-new-phase-in-the-merchant-princes-series-blending-spycraft-leninist-thought-experiments-and-parallel-dimensions/
#1yrago #OccupyTheSEC on #BankMergers https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/09/grievance-factory/#too-big-to-fail
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Charlie Stross's longrunning Merchant Princes series are a sneaky, brilliant techno-economic thought experiment disguised as heroic fantasy, and with Empire Games, the first book of the second phase of the series, Stross throws in a heavy dose of the noirest spycraft, an experiment in dieselpunk Leninism and War on Terror paranoia.
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