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4.0 to 4.5 stars. Incredible concept realized by an outstanding author. Combine James Bond, H.P. Lovecraft, the X-files and science fiction and you get the Atrocity Archives, the first book of the Laundry series. The Laundry is an ultra top secret British agency in an alternate version or our modern world that battles supernatural forces right out of the Cthulhu mythos. Yes, it is as good as it sounds. RECOMMENDED!!!!
Aug 10, 2010
Hali
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it was amazing
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It takes a bureaucracy. Only they can make life so difficult, even for super secret special spooks. Bob works for the Laundry a rather special division of Britain's intelligence service. How he became a spook is rather complicated having lots to do with very esoteric mathematics that apparently would have opened a gate to another, parallel universe and would have blown up a small town, and then his unwitting presence in a workshop where he saves the day by preventing a demon from manifesting in
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The quicky version!
1. I liked it.
2. It's really a novella + 1 short story.
3. It pays smart homage to HP Lovecraft and updates the Cthulhu mythos in a creative way.
4. It gets very technical in parts.
5. Charles Stross is a smart, funny, imaginative writer who does his fan-base a great service.
6. Some plot elements (particularly in the area of file conflicts/ battles) could be much stronger.
Stross does a great job of piecing together different mythologies and ideas in fresh and original ways, and ...more
1. I liked it.
2. It's really a novella + 1 short story.
3. It pays smart homage to HP Lovecraft and updates the Cthulhu mythos in a creative way.
4. It gets very technical in parts.
5. Charles Stross is a smart, funny, imaginative writer who does his fan-base a great service.
6. Some plot elements (particularly in the area of file conflicts/ battles) could be much stronger.
Stross does a great job of piecing together different mythologies and ideas in fresh and original ways, and ...more
