(The crossover began in earnest with The Labyrinth Index, 2018.) Magic is abroad everywhere superpowered cops, crooks, and civilians abound an undead god leads the government of Great Britain and his New Management regime has remade England in the image of the late 18th century, complete with public executions for minor offenses, heads on stakes, and vast and remorseless social-economic inequalities.
Beginning with this volume’s immediate predecessor, Dead Lies Dreaming, the world of the Laundry has evolved: previously concealed supernatural forces have erupted into public life. This isn’t exactly a Laundry Files book, though, and not only because it lacks Laundry operative Bob Howard and his colleagues and his agency. So it took me a while to recognize the genuinely nightmarish side of Stross’s work, a kidding-not-kidding sensibility driven by an entirely unfunny recognition of the awfulness that exists in the world outside the books. At the beginning, these struck me as light entertainment, part Lovecraftian-gothick, part secret-agent adventure, with a generous dollop of political-social satire, all delivered with an edgy and antic sense of humor.
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Quantum of Nightmares, Charles Stross ( Tordotcom 978-1-25083-937-4, $27.99, 368 pp, hc) January 2022.Ĭharles Stross’s Quantum of Nightmares is the 11th of the Laundry Files books, a series whose trademark is the blending of tropes, motifs, and narrative conventions from the supernatural-horror and intrigue/crime/spy-thriller genre families.
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