by Charles Stross
It did keep me engaged but I wasn't really into it. The James Bond subtext was fun, particularly as we saw the Lazenby Bond over the weekend. When Bob Howard goes to a conference in Germany (and I laughed my way through his experiences with the Smart Car on the Autobahn) he's on the beginning of an ...
~~Moved from GR~~ The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross What would you get if you substituted a computer nerd for James Bond, then sent him off to fight Lovecraftian Deep Ones? Well, in fact, you'd get this book.There's this fun (well, depending on how humorous you find Lovecraft) little story (...
This book is my personal favorite of the series, so far. Maybe I happen to enjoy Ian Flemming's style, and maybe I just happen to love the freaky humor that turns the whole novel into a very prolonged visual joke. Best reason for loving the novel is the same as the previous stories: the beautiful ...
Bond. James ... or maybe it's Bob. In the grand tradition of science fiction satire (new genre?), here he is ... password '007'. Well, ok, maybe there's no such genre, and if there were, there are limited entries. But however others may want to classify this book (Locus nominated it for best fantas...
The Jennifer Morgue has some really good lines -- like the one about information not just wanting to be free, but to stand around on street corners, wearing gang colors and terrorizing the neighbors -- but, ultimately, struck me as not as funny as it wanted to be. More of a "Heh." than a "Hahahahah!...
I loved this book. A great mix of spy-thriller, paranormal comedy with a geeky twist. Bob Howard is the main character and the "geekish demonological hacker" that relates the story.General story is not that important; just think Bond film. Evil bad guy is trying to take over the world, and our hero ...
Bob and Mo are back, once again fighting foes that normal people can only hope never to meet, or, Cthulhu forfend, antagonise. Stross's Laundry and the reasons for its existence are such a treat - the premise that magic is done with maths and physics is never going to get old for me.I didn't quite e...
Glorious fun for 100 pages, a parody mashup of Lovecraft and Fleming that had me at "the Deep Ones." But then... it keeps going. I liked the first in the series (The Atrocity Archives) a bit more, the game there to tease out the underlying similarities of HPL and the other spy form of occult knowl...
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