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“Charles Stross is awesome and his books are awesome and his Laundry Files series in particular is a hell of a lot of fun.”—John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author of The End of All Things“Thumbs up for a smart and engaging novel that continues a very smart and engaging series. Highly recommended.”—Tor.com“A quirky, hysterical and cerebral thriller that is practically impossible to put down.”—CK2’s Kwips and Kritiques
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About the Author
Charles Stross, born in 1964, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of seven Hugo-nominated novels, including Accelerando, Neptune’s Brood, Saturn’s Children and The Laundry Files series, and winner of three Hugo Awards for best novella. Stross has had his work translated into more than twelve languages. He has worked as a pharmacist, software developer, and tech-industry journalist.
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Product details
Series: A Laundry Files Novel (Book 6)
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Ace; Reprint edition (June 28, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425281183
ISBN-13: 978-0425281185
Product Dimensions:
4.2 x 1.1 x 6.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.7 out of 5 stars
303 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#551,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Well, it's a Laundry File novel, so it gets 3 stars to start with; unfortunately, it stops here, because it is the least good of this otherwise wonderful series. The author seems determined to present a view of "the old married couple" (they're not that old!) overburdened by their responsibilities to humankind, but does so rather clumsily. Both Bob and Mo sound just exhausted and so does the novel -- it lacks drive, pizzazz, and, especially, a sense of humor, something that's been a great asset of the series so far. The story is well constructed and interesting -- no disappointment here, really, and the inexorable approach to CASE NIGHTMARE continues apace -- but I thought we were going to CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN (or RAINBOW), and this is CASE NIGHTMARE GREY. I get that Bob and Mo are victims of their knowledge and deeds and intolerably burdened by their responsibilities (esp. Mo, as always the more responsible and more forward-looking of the two), but that was true in the previous novels and did not prevent them from carrying on with some verve and panache and to show their love for each other. Now, however, these two need treatment for depression, and, after reading the book, I feel like I could use some anti-depressants too...
I've generally enjoyed The Laundry Files.But not this one. It is mundane to the point of boredom, and I am not sure if it is the plot or the protagonist but something does not work. Probably both, because normally the first-person POV is Bob, and the sly, off kilter humor works as it has a distinctly masculine tone. Here the POV is from his wife but her voice is both breathless in a Mills and Boon heroine way, and yet still very similar to Bob. So Mo did not come across as her own person for me. And then there is the plot, which focuses on martial disharmony for the first section and it's a bit tedious, to be honest. If I want to read about that I'll tuck into my wife's many novels of that theme. What I expect from The Laundry is neuromancer derring-do with a side salad of overwhelming odds, boatloads of "will he or won't he" situations, seasoned with the need to work in the shadows and a "by the skin of his teeth and smarts of his brain" good over evil ending.This kind of has that, but it is slow getting started and never felt cohesive or sophisticated. Which for the price is very disappointing. Stross let me down with this instalment and while paperbacks are way less convenient than Kindle, I think I'll pick up his next novel in the marked down bin because until (if?) the value curve heads north again.
The book is definitely a departure from the previous Laundry Files and not just because of the change of viewpoint. Part of the reason that I like the series is the amount of geek culture that Bob injects from his viewpoint. That type of humor and viewpoint isn't appropriate coming from Mo, so it makes sense, but it's a loss.That being said, it's not a bad story. It's just not as good as, say, the Fuller Memorandum The first few Laundry Files were relatively self contained stories with CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN being part of the backdrop. Now it looks like Stross is going full on in moving the story arc forward. So I suspect that this book is setup for the future, and I suspect I'll probably view it in a better light after those volumes come back.That being said, one book from Mo's viewpoint is enough. Future books need to go back Bob being the narrator. Without him, the series just loses too much of it's appeal.
TL;DR:The Atrocity Archives: Saving the world is Bob Howard's job. There are a surprising number of meetings involved.The Annihilation Score: Setting up a new bureaucracy is Dominique O'Brien's job. She'll tell you about each meeting in full detail, including what coordinating outfit she wears to each one, and also, the condition of her hair at all times.More:Other reviewers here have praised Mo's character in this book. Me, well, I think this: In The Atrocity Archives she's a post-doc in an extremely technical and mathematical branch of philosophy and she reads Knuth for fun. In The Jennifer Morgue she undergoes extensive training and becomes a super-competent and very physical field agent. Her job title is "combat epistemologist" which certainly sounds incredibly abstruse and technical and surely requires an IQ at least three standard deviations above average. So in this book, told in her POV, we're in her head hearing her thoughts and we discover ... she's a protagonist in a Lifetime made-for-TV movie. Apparently that violin has already completely sucked away her brains and she is completely unaware of it.
What happened to the Laundry Files? The Annihilation Score is almost completely bureaucratic procedural filler, with the climax and ending stuck on in the last few pages. There was no new weirdness or horror that hadn't already been explored. The setting up of a Superhero cadre could have been interesting territory but they got no chance to shine, or explore the possibilities of what Laundry-style eldritch-horror-powered supers could do... The overarching story isn't a bad frame, but the over-reliance on committee meetings and Mo's nightmares left little room for fun or adventure.
I was rather disappointed by this installment; in particular, I found it rather hard to feel any sympathy whatsoever for the main character. I had expected it to be a breath of fresh air to see things from Dominique's perspective, but Stross' depiction of her seemed to be that of a rather self-absorbed person who, while clearly in a bad situation, still spends as much time worrying about the state of her marriage as one would deciding what to eat for dinner. While I certainly didn't expect Dominique to be a clone of Bob, I did expect that she would have her own endearing traits that complement his charming social ineptitude. Instead, I found myself gradually sympathizing with Bob and rooting for him to rid himself of yet another woman with whom he has a doomed relationship.
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