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The Atrocity Archives - (Laundry Files Novel) by Charles Stross (Paperback)

The Atrocity Archives - (Laundry Files Novel) by  Charles Stross (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems, Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet round out this offbeat story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series.</b> <p/> <br>Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. <p/>Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Like his peer Cory Doctorow, Stross has an ironic Generation X sensibility, conditioned, in his case, by time spent in the simultaneously thrilling and boring world of information technology. In <i>The Atrocity Archives</i>, Stross's genius lies in devoting fully as much time to the bureaucratic shenanigans of the Laundry as he does to its thaumaturgic mission." - <i>The Washington Post Book World</i><b> <p/></b> "Much of the action is completely nuts, but Stross manages to ground it in believability through his protagonist's deadpan reactions to both insane office politics and supernatural mayhem." - <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><b> <p/></b> "If this keeps up, 'Strossian' is going to become a sci-fi adjective...Charles Stross writes with intelligence and enjoys lifting the rock to show you what's crawling underneath...The clever results will bring a smile to your face." - <i>The Kansas City Star</i><br> <b><br></b>"It's science fiction's most pleasant surprise of the year." - <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Charles Stross</b>, born in 1964, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of seven Hugo-nominated novels, including <i>Accelerando</i>, <i>Neptune's Brood</i>, <i>Saturn's Children</i> and The Laundry Files series, and winner of three Hugo Awards for best novella. Stross has had his work translated into more than twelve languages. He has worked as a pharmacist, software developer, and tech-industry journalist.

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