Once again, as the front cover states: it’s Bob Howard versus Evil-and Evil cheats. I’ve already covered the two previous books in this series, The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue. Defense Intelligence Agency, but the lumbering protocols of the Internal Revenue Service.) The Upshot The only thing protecting the ordinary British citizen from the gibbering brain-eating monsters that linger in the shadows is a secret organization called “The Laundry” (sort of an MI-6 that’s got the computer support of the U.S. They usually break into our world through computational algorithms or when misguided minions call them through via arcane sacrifices and ceremonies. ‘Nuff said about my problems, which are nothing compared to Bob Howard’s issues in Stross’s The Fuller Memorandum.īob Howard is your garden-variety drab IT professional-until he stumbles upon the truth: there really are Lovecraftian monsters out there in other dimensions. Sometimes life swats you around and you don’t have time to update your blog.
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