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Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel
Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel | Charles Stross
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*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL CATEGORY*"Smart, literate, funny." --Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!Bob Howard's career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic, and combat with indescribably repellent creatures of pure evil. It has also involved a wearying amount of paperwork and office politics, and his expense reports are still a mess. Now, following the invasion of Yorkshire by the Host of Air and Darkness, the Laundry's existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organization has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a British government looking for public services to privatize. Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.Laundry Files1. The Atrocity Archives2. The Jennifer Morgue3. The Fuller Memorandum4. The Apocalypse Codex5. The Rhesus Chart6. The Annihilation Score7. The Nightmare Stacks
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Pickpick

We‘re back to our main protagonists, but they‘re in so much trouble. I wander how it‘ll end—as of now, I don‘t see a straightforward solution. This series was a considerable time investment, and I really hope the author will deliver. One more book to go.

(Also, I kinda really want these books to become a kitschy, tentacled-monster-of-the-week TV series. Some Netflix exec? Pretty, pretty please...?)

4.0/5

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kammartinez
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Pickpick

Full review here: https://wp.me/p21txV-EO

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ of 5⭐️s

Glad to have Bob back in the narrative helm - not least because things get real bad, REAL FAST in this novel. Won‘t say how because spoilers, but just remember taking the lesser evil and doing deals with devils don‘t necessarily end well for a lot of people.

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kammartinez
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BOB'S BAAAAACK~! Honestly though, it's good to see Bob back in (narrative) control, because the last book had a rather underwhelming narrator, especially coming after Mo's book. Looking forward to seeing what kind of eldritch shenaniganry goes down in this book - and maybe we get to see more of Mo and Persephone and Mhari and Johnny :D? Hopefully so XD.