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In the Mail: A CONVENTIONAL BOY.
Time to see what’s freaking out Charlie Stross this month! A CONVENTIONAL BOY is about D&D, so your guess is as good as mine. Presumably… never mind. That thought is unkind of me. Sorry: it’s the...
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Book of the Week: A CONVENTIONAL BOY.
I know, I know. But Charles Stross is just so entertaining when he’s being terrified over nothing! A CONVENTIONAL BOY will be his latest Laundry novel, and this one’s going to be over, God help us...
View ArticleIn the Mail: SEASON OF SKULLS (The Laundry Files).
I do legitimately enjoy these, albeit increasingly for completely different reasons than Charlie Stross might have intended. There’s just something relaxing about reading a horror novel whose author...
View ArticleIn the mail: Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry series).
Quantum of Nightmares is the latest installment of Charlie Stross’s ongoing spies-and-Cthulhu-and-computers Laundry series. As I’ve said before, I still enjoy the Laundry series, but I’m simply not...
View ArticleBook of the Week: QUANTUM OF NIGHTMARES (Laundry series).
Charles Stross’ QUANTUM OF NIGHTMARES comes out in less than a month, so I might as well grab it now. Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I don’t read these to be scared. I read them because...
View ArticleBook of the Week: Dead Lies Dreaming (Laundry Files Book 10).
Hey, they finally got a publication date for Charlie Stross’s latest Laundry spy/cosmic horror novel! Dead Lies Dreaming, comes out in October. As you know, I enjoy this series, although these days...
View ArticleBook of the Week: The Labyrinth Index.
The Labyrinth Index is book 9 in Charles Stross’s Laundry Mythos-spy series. It’s quite fun to read, although I’m not enjoying it in the same, ah, visceral way that I believe Charlie intends. I...
View ArticleIn the Mail: The Labyrinth Index.
The Labyrinth Index is the latest in Charles Stross’s spy-Lovecraftian Laundry Files series, and I’m looking forward to perusing it. There’s just something relaxing in reading a well-written horror...
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Book of the Week: The Trade of Queens.
Because I broke down and eventually read The Revolution Business; gratuitous bashing of the last administration aside (I had Charlie Stross figured as being too smart to auto-date his books like that),...
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Book of the Week: The Jennifer Morgue.
In one of my odder switches, I’m replacing You Can Do Anything, Daddy with The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross. From robot gorilla pirates from Mars to Cthulhu meets Bond meets the British civil...
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See, this is why I don’t mind funding the National Endowment of the Arts.
You can watch the video below only if you promise to read David Thompson’s post on it first. It’s important that you do that: it’s not fair for me to reproduce it in full here, and it’s just too good...
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Looking for something to read? (Charles Stross)
(Today’s guy: Charles Stross) If you’re the sort of person who thinks that mixing higher mathematics, spy fiction, and the Cthulhu Mythos is kind of cool… well, you’ve probably already read The...
View ArticleIn the Mail: Dark State.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: part of the amusement value in reading Charlie Stross is in seeing him struggle manfully to get out of the hole that his typically overconfident (and typically...
View ArticleBook of the Week: The Delirium Brief.
The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross is the latest in his Lovecraft-meets-espionage Laundry series, and it’s… well. How do I put this nicely? Charlie Stross — who is from Great Britain — has clearly...
View ArticleIn the Mail: The Delirium Brief.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I enjoy Charlie Stross’s books quite a lot, but I think that he should possibly restrain himself to writing in either the past, or the far future. The man’s...
View ArticleIn the Mail: Charlie Stross’s gingerly-tap-dancing ‘Empire Games.’
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: one major reason why I bought Empire Games was for the amusement of watching Charlie Stross extricate this particular story line from the morass of pseudoscience...
View ArticleIn the Mail and Early, to Boot: The Nightmare Stacks.
A day early: all hail the power of hyper-efficient Amazon delivery systems! A… suggestion? If you have not effectively memorized* Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies at this point, perhaps you should go...
View ArticleIn the Mail: ‘The Annihilation Score.’
Part of Charlie Stross’s Laundry series, which is one of the few series that I will religiously buy in hardcover and sight unseen. This one is supposed to be about the Mythos, government bureaucracy,...
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Book of the Week: “The Annihilation Score.”
This one I am anticipating: The Annihilation Score (A Laundry Files Novel) will not be out for another week and a half, and I don’t think that I’m going luck out with this one and find a copy at a...
View ArticleIn the Mail: Charles Stross’s The Rhesus Chart.
Part of his Laundry Files series. Lovecraft meets spy novels, etc. etc. etc. Looking forward to reading it.
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