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Season Of Skulls (book 3 of The New Management, a Laundry Files novel, book 12) by Charles Stross.

It’s not often I start a book review with an apology, but I do now. In my review of the

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Quantum Of Nightmares (a Laundry Files novel) by Charles Stross (book review).

It has been almost two years since my last review of a Laundry Files book, ‘The Delirium Brief’. That one

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Escape From Yokai Land (a Laundry Files novella) by Charles Stross (book review).

What we have here is an 81 page novella from Charles Stross which explains in some respect Bob Howard’s absence

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The Revolution Trade (Merchant Prince Omnibus) by Charles Stross (book review).

Being a professional writer is a precarious business. It takes months to write and polish a book but in times

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BooksMEDIAScifi

The Annihilation Score (a Laundry Files novel book 6) by Charles Stross (book review).

Picking up any of ‘The Laundry Files’ books is like meeting an old favourite friend you haven’t seen for a

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The Rhesus Chart (A Laundry Files novel) by Charles Stross.
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The Rhesus Chart (A Laundry Files novel) by Charles Stross.

Bob’s 10% project is data mining. He’s looking to identify outbreaks of anything peculiar using the National Health Service data

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The Traders’ War (A Merchant Princes Omnibus Volume 2) by Charles Stross (book review).

‘The Traders’ War’ is a re-edited and repackaged release featuring the two middle books of the ‘Merchant Princes’ series, ‘The

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The Rapture Of The Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (book review).

Fancy yourself as a Luddite? Well if you’re reading this fantastic review on this amazing website, you’ve failed already. Offended?

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Charles Stross—PALIMPSEST
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Palimpsest by Charles Stross

As a novella, Palimpsest is densely packed with extraordinary ideas, facts and speculation. It also manages to pack in an

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The Apocalypse Codex (The Laundry Files book 4) by Charles Stross

This is the fourth book in ‘The Laundry Files’ series of novels telling the story of Bob Howard, an operative

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