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  • The Atrocity Archives: A Laundry Files Novel | Charles Stross
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    The Atrocity Archives: A Laundry Files Novel

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    • By Charles Stross
    • Narrated By Gideon Emery
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    Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.

    Ethan M. says: "A great techno-spy-Lovecraftian-horror-comedy"
  • The Delirium Brief | Charles Stross
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    The Delirium Brief

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 46 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
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    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.

    Jasmine Wahlberg says: "Fantastic, frustrating, squamous, and rugose"
  • The Nightmare Stacks: Laundry Files, Book 7 | Charles Stross
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    The Nightmare Stacks: Laundry Files, Book 7

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    • By Charles Stross
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    After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by The Laundry, Britain's secret counter-occult agency that's humanity's first line of defense against the forces of darkness. Dependent on his new employers for his continued existence - as Alex has no stomach for predatory bloodsucking - he has little choice but to accept his new role as an operative in training.

    Ethan M. says: "The magic is back and then some!"
  • Accelerando | Charles Stross
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    Accelerando

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
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    The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.

    David Lee says: "Hardest of hard SF..."
  • The Jennifer Morgue: A Laundry Files Novel | Charles Stross
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    The Jennifer Morgue: A Laundry Files Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 46 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
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    Bob Howard is a special operative for the British agency called The Laundry, and his task is to stop a rogue billionaire from using an artifact, known as Gravedust, with the power to reanimate the dead. The U.S. Black Agency sends the lethal Ramona Random to aid Bob’s mission, but she seems to have a different agenda.

    Bryan says: "The Laundry as James Bond"
  • The Annihilation Score | Charles Stross
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    The Annihilation Score

    • UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 22 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
    • Narrated By Elle Newlands
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    Mo's latest assignment is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing superpranks instead of superheroics. The mayor of London being levitated by a dumpy man in Trafalgar Square would normally be a source of shared amusement for Mo and Bob, but they're currently separated because something's come between them - something evil.

    Ethan M. says: "Falls apart in all the wrong ways"
  • The Rhesus Chart | Charles Stross
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    The Rhesus Chart

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
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    As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry - the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats - Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do - especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank in London are showing signs of infection.

    Ethan M. says: "The Laundry series returns to excellent form"
  • The Fuller Memorandum: A Laundry Files Novel | Charles Stross
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    The Fuller Memorandum: A Laundry Files Novel

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    Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross is renowned for his cutting-edge science fiction. This third entry in his “edgy … spoof of Cold War spy thrillers” (Booklist) finds covert agent Bob Howard learning about a top-secret dossier that vanishes with his boss. Determined to discover the contents of this memorandum, Howard runs afoul of Russian spies, ancient demons, and apostles of a hideous cult planning to raise the Eater of Souls from the undead.

    Maggie says: "Top notch!"
  • Empire Games | Charles Stross
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    Empire Games

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travelers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's 17 years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world.

    Alex Beckers says: "Disappointing"
  • The Apocalypse Codex | Charles Stross
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    The Apocalypse Codex

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 55 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
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    The winner of multiple Hugo Awards, Charles Stross is one of the most highly regarded science fiction writers of his time. In The Apocalypse Codex, occasionally hapless British agent Bob Howard tackles a case involving an American televangelist and a supernatural threat of global proportions.

    Ethan M. says: "Still great, though a bit of the magic has faded"
  • Rule 34 | Charles Stross
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    Rule 34

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    Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross takes listeners into the near future for this breathtaking thriller. As head of the Rule 34 Squad, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh keeps a close eye on Internet activity, monitoring whether people are participating in harmless fantasies or engaging in illegal activities. When three criminal spammers are murdered, it’s up to Liz to determine how the victims were connected. If she can’t figure it out, more people will surely die.

    C. Hartmann says: "Wild Ride Picks Up Where "Halting State" Left Off"
  • The Hidden Family: Merchant Princes, Book 2 | Charles Stross
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    The Hidden Family: Merchant Princes, Book 2

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists - with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.

    Amazon Customer Curtis Wright. says: "Great story and narrator"
  • The Revolution Business: Book Five of the Merchant Princes | Charles Stross
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    The Revolution Business: Book Five of the Merchant Princes

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    Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her.

  • The Nightmare Stacks: A Laundry Files novel | Charles Stross
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    The Nightmare Stacks: A Laundry Files novel

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Alex Schwartz had a great job and a promising future - until he caught an unfortunate bout of vampirism and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret intelligence agency. His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. But the thought of telling his parents he's lost his job, let alone their discovering his 'condition', is causing Alex almost as much anxiety as his new lifestyle of supernatural espionage. His only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a student from the local Goth Festival.

  • The Atrocity Archives: Book 1 in The Laundry Files | Charles Stross
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    The Atrocity Archives: Book 1 in The Laundry Files

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Never volunteer for active duty... 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. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than 'control+alt+delete' to sort this mess out...

    says: "Rubbish"
  • The Delirium Brief | Charles Stross
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    The Delirium Brief

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Bob Howard's career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from the supernatural, has involved brilliant hacking, ancient magic and combat with creatures of pure evil. Now the Laundry's existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers.

  • The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes, Book 4 | Charles Stross
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    The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes, Book 4

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well connected, and that her family was too much like the Mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose.

    Susan says: "My son said not to bother"
  • Glasshouse | Charles Stross
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    Glasshouse

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 38 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
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    With Glasshouse, Stross pens a Kafkaesque tale set in a 27th-century of teleport gates and mind-attacking network worms. After Robin awakes in a clinic, he struggles to summon details of his life, but too many of his memories have been wiped clean. More troubling is the stark awareness of immediate danger: someone is trying to kill him. On the run, Robin makes a desperate gamble and volunteers for what he hopes is the sanctuary of an unusual study at the Glasshouse. Once there, however, he realizes the true terror has only begun.

    Ken says: "Vintage Stross"
  • The Clan Corporate: Book Three of the Merchant Princess | Charles Stross
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    The Clan Corporate: Book Three of the Merchant Princess

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    • By Charles Stross
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    Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots, and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort.

    Kathleen Ward says: "These books are addictive"
  • Singularity Sky | Charles Stross
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    Singularity Sky

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    • By Charles Stross
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    In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion?

    Noah says: "Gonzo giggleworthy geekitude"
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