late August at the Laundry
Aug. 30th, 2010 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ankh_hplJust finished The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross's latest Laundry Files novel, last night. I'm happy to report that this peculiar combination of Lovecraftian Mythos, very British spy novel, and SF-skewed geekiness is still working as well as ever -- though, as a non-computer-science person, I suspect I'm missing the more esoteric jokes.
If you've already read The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue, you'll probably want to put Bob Howard's latest -- and possibly nastiest -- misadventures at the top of your Lovecraftian to-read list. If you're curious but new to this series, please start with The Atrocity Archives. Stross does a decent job of reminding readers of what's happened in previous tales, but you'll be missing a lot otherwise.
Along with the usual threat of the stars turning right Real Soon Now (or, in Stross parlance, CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN), this novel features one Dr. Mike Ford (John M. Ford fans, rejoice!), a glamoured iPhone, and the first evil Sloane Ranger I've ever encountered. I'm not sure how these books manage to make the Mythos-knowledgeable reader giggle on one page and shudder on the next, but somehow they do.
If you've already read The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue, you'll probably want to put Bob Howard's latest -- and possibly nastiest -- misadventures at the top of your Lovecraftian to-read list. If you're curious but new to this series, please start with The Atrocity Archives. Stross does a decent job of reminding readers of what's happened in previous tales, but you'll be missing a lot otherwise.
Along with the usual threat of the stars turning right Real Soon Now (or, in Stross parlance, CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN), this novel features one Dr. Mike Ford (John M. Ford fans, rejoice!), a glamoured iPhone, and the first evil Sloane Ranger I've ever encountered. I'm not sure how these books manage to make the Mythos-knowledgeable reader giggle on one page and shudder on the next, but somehow they do.
