[Abyss]

Stross just twit'd that the LAUNDRY series has been optioned for tv.

Doesn't mean much at this stage, but neat all the same.

[Aptorian]

33% into Labyrinth Index.

Spoiler

Godwaker PowerPoint presentation. Waking Dread Cthulhu! All hail the new flesh!

This is so god damn awesome.

[dktorode]

hey hey party people.

feels goodman to post again....but for the wrong reasons.

So.... I am about 2/3 way through ANNIHILATION SCORE, and...well... if i have to read one more god-damned chapter about a "meeting" or a "management issue" ... i'm gonna throw this f*&%ng book into a meeting with the living room fireplace.
Does anything actually ever happen? or can i just move on to the next one with a synopsis of this one on wikipedia?

Series has been a decent page turner ..until now.

...sigh

-DKT

[Abyss]

dktorode, on 20 June 2019 - 01:12 AM, said:

hey hey party people.

feels goodman to post again....but for the wrong reasons.

So.... I am about 2/3 way through ANNIHILATION SCORE, and...well... if i have to read one more god-damned chapter about a "meeting" or a "management issue" ... i'm gonna throw this f*&%ng book into a meeting with the living room fireplace.
Does anything actually ever happen? or can i just move on to the next one with a synopsis of this one on wikipedia?

Series has been a decent page turner ..until now.

...sigh

-DKT

I regret to say nope.

Skim to the good bits, they're worth it and you wont miss anything important.

[Aptorian]

Dktorode! Where did you go!?

I remember you being a heavy poster of movie trailers and pictures... I think.

Also, yeah, if the bureaucracy isn't your thing, then I don't know how you got this far into Laundry Files.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 20 June 2019 - 04:29 AM

[dktorode]

Aptorian, on 20 June 2019 - 04:24 AM, said:

Dktorode! Where did you go!?

I remember you being a heavy poster of movie trailers and pictures... I think.

Also, yeah, if the bureaucracy isn't your thing, then I don't know how you got this far into Laundry Files.

Life got the best of me. I got way too busy man.

Abyss, on 20 June 2019 - 02:33 AM, said:

I regret to say nope.

Skim to the good bits, they're worth it and you wont miss anything important.

Aaaaaight... skimming it is. (In all honesty I think i've already been flipping thruogh the mundane stuff anyway)

This post has been edited by dktorode: 20 June 2019 - 09:12 AM

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dktorode, on 20 June 2019 - 09:10 AM, said:

Aptorian, on 20 June 2019 - 04:24 AM, said:

Dktorode! Where did you go!?

I remember you being a heavy poster of movie trailers and pictures... I think.

Also, yeah, if the bureaucracy isn't your thing, then I don't know how you got this far into Laundry Files.

Life got the best of me. I got way too busy man.

Abyss, on 20 June 2019 - 02:33 AM, said:

I regret to say nope.

Skim to the good bits, they're worth it and you wont miss anything important.

Aaaaaight... skimming it is. (In all honesty I think i've already been flipping thruogh the mundane stuff anyway)

You. Are. Alive? Wow! Nice to see your name appear!

[Aptorian]

Just as a word of encouragement. I wasn't particularly fond of Annihilation Score or the book before it but the Laundry Files are about to hit a new gear. You'll appreciate the latest three books. They're apocalyptic.

[Abyss]

Courtesy of Warren Ellis:

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One of those books was the manuscript for the next Charles Stross novel. DEAD LIES DREAMING, which extends his
marvellous Laundry Files series into uncharted territory. It's well worth pre-ordering: even if you've never read one before, it's
a relatively clean entry into the series. And, let me be clear: It's a joyfully mad, dark ride into the criminal underworld of a
demon-ruled Britain where power costs lives and love costs the future.

YES.

[Abyss]

Stross on twitter just now...

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Laundry files apocrypha:First it was a short novel, serialized in an obscure Scottish SF magazine.Then it was a very ungainly two-story collection. Then it got a sequel. And the plan called for a trilogy, ending with a Christopher Hodder-Williams tribute.Then it metastasized.

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"The Laundry Files" wasn't my chosen series title, either—my editor wanted to riff off Jim Butcher.

[Aptorian]

I agree on the Laundry Files being bad. The Atrocity Archive might have been better as an example.

[Abyss]

Aptorian, on 18 February 2020 - 05:27 PM, said:

I agree on the Laundry Files being bad. The Atrocity Archive might have been better as an example.

The Atrocity Archive was a specific thing in that story, which has more or less been the case for each book.



Naturally now I have a hard time thinking of a name for the series other than 'The Laundry Files'. Apparently so does Stross.

..and it's not like 'Dresden Files' wasn't itself a riff on 'The Rockford Files'.

[JPK]

Abyss, on 18 February 2020 - 04:51 PM, said:

Stross on twitter just now...

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Laundry files apocrypha:First it was a short novel, serialized in an obscure Scottish SF magazine.Then it was a very ungainly two-story collection. Then it got a sequel. And the plan called for a trilogy, ending with a Christopher Hodder-Williams tribute.Then it metastasized.

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"The Laundry Files" wasn't my chosen series title, either—my editor wanted to riff off Jim Butcher.

This actually makes a lot of sense. I just ran across an easter egg at the beginning of book 3 where Bob makes a passing remark about reading a Dresden Files book. Doesn't name it outright, but it's obvious that that's what it is.

[Cyphon]

So a friend told me the next book is out in two weeks... Dead Lies Dreaming.

[Aptorian]

Oooh, more Sleepy Chutulhu in the Pyramid? I was a big fan of the Chtulhu.exe reference last time.

[Abyss]

Yep. Apparently a near completely new cast, same setting, same timeline.
Blurb sounds solid.

[Aptorian]

Dead Lies Dreaming just popped up in my kindle library!

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When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel.

As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere.

In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.

It just struck me reading the blurb that with Case Nightmare X looming Stross story universe is evolving to become more fun because anything can happen and what happens can get pretty weird.

[Abyss]

No earbook in Canada wtff??...

[Aptorian]

Read the first 10% (What's up with ebooks not having page numbers?) and got sucked right in. The setup is standard fare but what's interesting is the background info about what the Black Pharaoh is doing to Britain.

[Aptorian]

I want Stross to write Imp's version of Peter Pan. Then I want Werner Herzog to instruct the movie.