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   Lynn McGuire to Bobbie Sellers   
   Re: The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stros   
   09 Feb 26 14:56:03   
   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/7/2026 4:48 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > Hi Denizens of sf.written,   
   >   
   >      Well I finished this about a day ago. If you are a fan of   
   > Charles Stross's Laundry files or of amusingly eledritch horror   
   > in general you won't want to  miss this.   
   >      The American President has gone missing and the elder   
   > god, the Black Pharoah who is ruling the UK. with the aid of   
   > former Laundry members, tasks Mhaire who is more competent   
   >   than she knows to find our why and rescue the President.   
   >      The American equivalent of the Laundry who are called by   
   > the Laundry, "Nazgul" are trying to run Cuthlu.exe aka the   
   >   "Lord of Sleep" and wake that before the stars are absolutely   
   > right. K parasites save the day but V parasites save the brain   
   > for lunch.  Golly. it makes me glad I am not good at Math.   
   >      No one in this is a good guy but many are team players.   
   >      It seems to me to be the best story yet of the problems   
   > in Callilng Up that which cannot be banished.   
   >      Somewhat Fresh Horror!   
   >   
   >      Not perhaps for kiddies due to language.   
   >   
   >      But if you are over 18 you had better read it or   
   > miss the chance, with censorship getting more   
   > ridiculous every day.   
   >   
   >      bliss   
      
   I have been communicating with Stross over on reddit as we have a lot of   
   similar likes and he is a Heinlein / Ilona Andrews fan also.  I have one   
   of his Laundry books and two of his robot books in my SBR (one is a reread).   
      
   Lynn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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