The Atrocity Archives: A Laundry Files Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0032U8OIA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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I will try to keep this brief There really isn't anything I've read (not to say such things do not exist, I just haven't found them yet) that directly compares to THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES. It resists easy genre-based identification because it possesses elements of what Lovecraft would call "supernatural fiction," science fiction, some pret. balance the comedy and the horror--but these are highly recommended if you're looking for one of the cleverest genre The series definitely gets stronger after a few more installments--I think it takes Stross a little bit with these characters to balance the comedy and the horror--but these are highly recommended if you're looking for one of the cleverest genre mashups out there. IT/office-bureaucracy meets spy thriller me. "The One That Started It All" according to Dormouse2The One That Started It All This, the first book in the Laundry Files series, is an interesting mixture of genres told from the point of view of Bob Howard. He's an IT guy who has been working for the Laundry for a few years - underpaid, shares a house in London with a couple of mad scientists, and looking to break into Field Ops out . . This, the first book in the Laundry Files series, is an interesting mixture of genres told from the point of view of Bob Howard. He's an IT guy who has been working for the Laundry for a few years - underpaid, shares a house in London with a couple of mad scientists, and looking to break into Field Ops out
Amid all the bizarre happenings are the everyday trappings of a British bureaucracy. In "Atrocity," Bob, a low-level computer fix-it guy for the Laundry, a supersecret British agency that defends the world from occult happenings, finds himself promoted to fieldwork after he bravely saves the day during a routine demonstration gone awry. From Publishers Weekly Lovecraft's Cthulhu meets Len Deighton's spies in Stross's latest, as the Scottish author explains in his afterword to this offbeat book offering two related long novellas, "The Atrocity Archive" and "The Concrete Jungle" (the latter previously unpublished). With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult and the mundane, the truly weird and the petty. In "Jungle," Bob teams up with a cop, Josephine, to save the Laundry from a powermonger who seeks to stage an internal coup by using zombies as her minions. All rights reserved. Bob gets called on the carpet by his bosses because he requested backup during an emer
But for some reason, he is.. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series.Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis
He holds degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs including pharmacist, technical author, software engineer, and freelance journalist. . Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He is now a full-time writer