So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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This is an amazing story of a family who have the ability to walk between alternate worlds. They use a pattern which when focused on takes the person to an alternate world. The heroine of this tale is a journalist called Miriam Beckstein.She was adopted as a baby by the Becksteins. Her adoptive mother gives her a box with effects which were found with her as a baby, Inside is a locket which she takes home. Later she opens the locket while sitting in front of a computer and looking at the pattern inside finds herself in a forest still sitting in the chair. She manages to get home using the locket again.
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Merchant Princes #01: The Family Trade by Charles Stross
Melvyn Laycock, January 2, 2010
This is an amazing story of a family who have the ability to walk between alternate worlds. They use a pattern which when focused on takes the person to an alternate world. The heroine of this tale is a journalist called Miriam Beckstein.She was adopted as a baby by the Becksteins. Her adoptive mother gives her a box with effects which were found with her as a baby, Inside is a locket which she takes home. Later she opens the locket while sitting in front of a computer and looking at the pattern inside finds herself in a forest still sitting in the chair. She manages to get home using the locket again.(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)