From: djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid
Lynn McGuire writes:
> 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
>
I have enjoyed Stross's "Laundry" series books for years, and re-read a
number of them. But now that the elder gods and eldritch horrors have
won, the "New Management" series is a little too much horror and
bloody-minded for my taste. I will probably still finish the new series,
but it has been slow going.
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