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Question Charles Stross's "The Laundry" series
8 years 3 months ago #1
by Mister D
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If you haven't read any of them, i can thoroughly recommend these books.
It starts off as a cross between HP Lovecraft, and Le Carre, and goes seriously sideways from there. There's a slight touch of a Grim MeatHook Future, especially when it starts moving towards the latest of the novels, but they are definitely worth reading.
Underlying theme, is that Magic Works, But...
The existential Platonic reality actually exists, but it acts as a conduit between different universes, which means that any "Sufficiently Advanced Mathematics is identical to Magic", which is ok when you know what you are doing, but unfortunate when you don't.
This is how the initial main character, Bob Howard, got drafted into the department of the British Civil Service that deals with this sort of thing. He nearly flattens his university town with the magical equivalent of a nuke by accident, so he got drafted.
It starts from there, and goes in all kinds of directions.
I finished reading the latest book at 7am on Boxing Day morning.
Book 6, "The Annihilation Score" is directly relevant to this website, whilst book 7, "The Nightmare Stacks" would fit very nicely with the thread discussing Nikki.
Definitely more Lovecraftian than here, but worth reading nonetheless.
Book 8 has just gone to the publishers, for a June release date. Put my pre-order in already.
It starts off as a cross between HP Lovecraft, and Le Carre, and goes seriously sideways from there. There's a slight touch of a Grim MeatHook Future, especially when it starts moving towards the latest of the novels, but they are definitely worth reading.
Underlying theme, is that Magic Works, But...
The existential Platonic reality actually exists, but it acts as a conduit between different universes, which means that any "Sufficiently Advanced Mathematics is identical to Magic", which is ok when you know what you are doing, but unfortunate when you don't.
This is how the initial main character, Bob Howard, got drafted into the department of the British Civil Service that deals with this sort of thing. He nearly flattens his university town with the magical equivalent of a nuke by accident, so he got drafted.
It starts from there, and goes in all kinds of directions.
I finished reading the latest book at 7am on Boxing Day morning.
Book 6, "The Annihilation Score" is directly relevant to this website, whilst book 7, "The Nightmare Stacks" would fit very nicely with the thread discussing Nikki.
Definitely more Lovecraftian than here, but worth reading nonetheless.
Book 8 has just gone to the publishers, for a June release date. Put my pre-order in already.
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8 years 3 months ago #2
by Arcanist Lupus
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