Of floppy disks and re-formatting hard drives. Bob's first shot has him clambering around piles Using the specialized math that collapses the barriers between Lovecraftian entities that try to break through into everyday life, This Laundry doesn't whitewashĬlothes it cleanses reality itself, of those pesky demons and In 'The Atrocity Archive', Bob Howard is the prototypicalĭesk-jockey who just wants a shot at active duty. The book does live up to the plurality of its title.īut 'The Atrocity Archives' turn out to be more fun than the grim ('The Concrete Jungle'), an introduction by Ken Macleod ('Charlie'sĭemons'), an afterword by Charles Stross ('Inside the Fear Factory')Īnd a multi-page 'Glossary of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Originally serialized in Spectrum SF, an additional brand-new novella It includes the short novel 'The Atrocity Archive', Sounds pretty gruesome, but it's not the horror show the title Redacted by Those Who Have Only Our Best Interests In Mind. Make sure it's not one of the many in which the best bits have been ButĬheck any copy you buy carefully before plunking down your money. Mathematics behind magic that really works? You'll find thatĭocumentation only in 'The Atrocity Archives' by Charles Stross. Secret division of British intelligence devoted to suppressing the Zip about the Earth's atmosphere in their flying saucers? Check. Remote viewers employed by the CIA to spy on aliens as they The PATRIOT Act used to shut down a Stargate Fan website?Ĭheck. Watch over us, spy on us, or spy on others that we're not willing toīelieve. There's little that we're told about the activities of those who To consult - so long as they're not printed in invisible ink. Proves to the be the truth, as facts prove un-checkable and proofsĬheck in as counter-factual, we have only the words on a printed page

Services, as one truth is discovered to be a lie while another lie Who knows what to believe anymore? As one bizarre revelation afterĪnother rolls out from the fluorescent hallways of our intelligence Stross Golden Gryphon US Hardcover First Edition ISBN 5-8 Publication Date: 05-01-2004 274 Pages $24.95 Date Reviewed: 08-04-04 Reviewed by: Rick Kleffel © 2004 This is the first novel in the Laundry Files.Charles Stross The Atrocity Archives Reviewed by Rick Kleffel Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed.

While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. 'Tremendously good, geeky fun' Telegraph on the Laundry Filesīob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. 'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' Ben Aaronovitch on the Laundry Files

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross