NewsScifi
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 ‘Quantum Of Nightmares’,…
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May 2022
ReviewHorror
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 was number 8…
ReviewScifi
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 from books 6…
August 2020
ReviewFantasy
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 of economic downturn…
April 2017
ReviewScifi
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 while. You just…
March 2016
NewsHorror
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 lakes. It just…
October 2014
ReviewScifi
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 Clan Corporate’ and…
November 2012
ReviewScifi
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? Perhaps you’d like…
September 2012
NewsScifi
Palimpsest by Charles Stross
As a novella, Palimpsest is densely packed with extraordinary ideas, facts and speculation. It also manages to pack in an absorbing story to…
August 2012
NewsBooks
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 in a branch…