The Atrocity Archives (Audio)
The Laundry Files, book 1 Read by Gideon Emery Length 11.0 hrs • Unabridged ℗ 2010 by Recorded Books, LLC A Hugo Award winner and bestselling author, Charles Stross combines the best elements of science fiction and fantasy. In The Atrocity Archives, a lowly computer geek working for a secret...
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The Laundry Files, book 1
Read by Gideon Emery
Length 11.0 hrs • Unabridged
℗ 2010 by Recorded Books, LLC
A Hugo Award winner and bestselling author, Charles Stross combines the best elements of science fiction and fantasy. In The Atrocity Archives, a lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he’s faced with saving the universe using only his smarts and a disembodied hand that renders him invisible. Stross’ award-winning novella, The Concrete Jungle, is also included.
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ISBN:
9781456111373 (145611137X)
Publish date: March 28th 2011
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
Series: Laundry Files (#1)
A potentially cool idea that Stross just doesn't pull off. The incompetent shrew club muscling in on the old boys club was also pretty tiresome. Especially since it was the basis of much of the underlying plot. And Mo may be smart but she's about as useless as Kira, the love interest from Hard to be...
I've actually attempted to read(listen to) this book a couple of different times, and this time it stuck. Finally. I've heard such great things about this series, and Gideon Emery does a fantastic job of narrating.This started off really dry -- which it's kind of intended to, given the bureaucratic ...
I must start with a warning: this book is definitely not for everyone. Also, be aware that it contains two stories, the second one being a novelette, The Concrete Jungle (which I might have liked slightly more than the novel itself, perhaps because by then I had a stronger grasp on the world develop...
What if solving really complicated math problems actually opened portals to other universes. Or summoned things from them to here? And considering the calculation powers of computers, what if that put all the lovecraftian horrors of the multiverse just a few lines of code away? What if indeed. Ob...
Dudes, I finally did it! I finally read a Charles Stross novel that didn't leave me feeling vaguely disappointed that I didn't enjoy it more! Apparently this is the series for me, of his work. So far. I should have guessed. I may not be into Cthulhu as a general rule, but Cthulhu plus bureaucracy? B...
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