He’s pretty normal, all things considered, despite the situation he finds himself in. This is what Bob and his colleagues are meant to prevent from happening.īob is an entertaining guy. There are other universes, and creatures from those universes who, for one reason or another, would like to find their way into ours. (“If he goes public and reproduces we could be facing a Level One reality excursion within weeks.”) This is a book that drops gems like “the Turing-Lovecraft theorem.” You don’t need to be able to understand the magic-babble in order to have a lot of fun reading about it! I expect that a reader versed in math or physics, however, probably would get more out of it than I did. This is a world in which math can destroy the universe, and Bob’s first, miserable field agent assignment is to break into an office and destroy a math paper. Be careful what you wish for, Bob! While trying to dodge the manipulations of his direct colleagues and superiors, he ends up roped into a higher-up’s attempts to keep people safe from the unknown. He’s tech support, but he really wants to be a field agent. Like most government projects they run on paperwork and back-stabbing. Their mission? To protect humanity from all the horrors they’re unaware of. The Capital Laundry Services is the front for a super-secret British government agency. It’s a brilliant blend of comedy and horror. I heard about Charles Stross on a certain facebook horror books group, and when I checked out The Atrocity Archives (A Laundry Files Novel), I had to give it a try.
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