Just finished the final (?) installment of the Laundry Files by @cstross : The Regicide Report. Just a little spoiler...it is very good and everyone should read the whole series. Pax does look a little cross, but that is because it took a couple of tries to get this picture, and I was not properly petting her. #LaundryFiles #Caterday #CatsOfMastodon
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That was a good day. Through to Edinburgh to pick up a copy of @cstross latest 'The Regicide Report' from Transreal Fiction, pint in Greyfriars Bobby's Bar (full of tourists, to no-ones surprise) and a tour around the Edinburgh Hacklab.
Now devoured said book. Makes a suitably semi-apocalyptic ending to the Laundry Files. And I need to go and read up on Operation BARMAID, which is a bit of Cold War insanity I hadn't heard of...
Some Laundry-themed rôle-playing games
with Kickstarter rewarding aims
sat on a table
'til Charlie was able
to sign them without any maims.
@cstross Everyone knows vampires aren’t real, man
@cstross and back to the beginning #charlesstross #bob #laundryfiles
Just finished "The Regicide Report" by @cstross
Blimey. More twists and turns than the original adventure game maze of twisty passages
Bravo, Charlie. What a way to bow out a host of characters. Although, of course, Bob's final words could hold true!
The Weather, the country and well the world is, well look at it. That is it, I am running away to Bob Land for the evening. The Regicide Report by @cstross.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy #amreading 💙📚 #LaundryFiles
“(There are many (many (nested)) parentheses: ritual magic, realtime spell-casting, hasn’t been the same since John McCarthy.)”
– Charlie Stross, The Apocalypse Codex
(Yep, I’m rereading the #LaundryFiles by @cstross as a refresher for #TheRegicideReport)
I just gulped down #TheRegicideReport in 24 hours! It was very epic and satisfyingly ties a lot of plotlines and characters from the previous #LaundryFiles books together.
However, it has left me a bit melancholy. I guess I was hoping that @cstross would have some fresh ideas on how to definitively deal with monsters who have taken over your government and are indiscriminately killing people to further their own selfish goals. You know, topical advice.
It has landed! a happy/sad day here. @cstross thank you for your stellar writing over the years 🙂 #charlesstross #laundryfiles
In prep for the end of the series and finding out how Bob and Mo end up, I've revisited the first book (The Atrocity Archive), and am the part where Bob has just met Mo for the first time.
#laundry #laundryFiles
With the final instalment of Charlie Stross’s #laundryFiles due out at the end of the month, now seems as good a time as any for a re-read of the series.
Hello Bob, hello Mo. Hello Mhari, Alex and Cassie, Angleton and Armstrong, Iris and Seph, Pinkie and Brains.
It’s been a while…feels good 😎
I finished the fifth Laundry Files book, found out the sixth one doesn't have Bob as the narrator, and became actually, genuinely upset, as though I lost a friend or something
Which I suppose speaks to the writing
Like he's a bit of a dick (quite a big dick actually at the start) but he grows
Anyway the new narrator for book 6 is his wife so it'll be interesting to see their marriage from her POV
Bob has always said he's an unreliable narrator too, so that'll be fun to witness
@purplelotus13 @arendleejessurun "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is a free #book downloadable from Cory's website.
https://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.pdf
Alt formats also available from Cory's website
https://craphound.com/category/littlebrother/
I have the sequel "Homeland" on my TBR pile too. Scarily prophetic for what is happening in USA right now. Maybe not great for hopeful escapism altho I expect a survivable ending cos the next in the series "Attack Surface" has some of the samecharacters.
For weirder escapism I'm also reading Merchant Traders series by Charles Stross @cstross
https://www.goodreads.com/series/40515-the-merchant-princes
They're portal fiction unlike the James Bond on a budget meets Lovecraft + Brit bureacracy of the #LaundryFiles. The latest ones in the New Management phase may appeal
https://www.goodreads.com/series/335314-the-new-management
Or the lighter UK X files but police and magic and nicer #RiversOfLondon series by Ben Aaronovitch in #books and comics
https://www.goodreads.com/series/51937-rivers-of-london
I also read cosy mysteries like Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/299267-thursday-murder-club
And for total escapism, Georgette Heyers' historical romances. Try The Grand Sophy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261689.The_Grand_Sophy
Another strong entry in the recent #LaundryFiles novels, with a really interesting trip into the Regency period of England.
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I learn more vocabulary and weird facts from @cstross 's books than anywhere else. As I find myself on a bender of the later #LaundryFiles series, I need to either read in ebook format for the built in dictionary or have my phone or a physical dictionary near me.
Today's gem was learning about The Bluestocking Society, a women's rights and intellectual movement from the 18th century.
The new characters started out slow for me in Dead Lies Dreaming, but it's been picking up speed ever since I started that one. Here we are on the third novel with Wendy, Eve, Imp, and the crew.
40 pages in and I already know this one's going to be a banger!
(comment on Season of Skulls)
Equoid
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/04/04/equoid/
#BobHowardFictitiousCharacter_ #BobHowardFictitiousCharacterFiction #book #CharlesStross #ContemporaryFantasy #DeMonologieRomansNouvellesEtc #demonology #DemonologyFiction #fantasy #FantasyFiction #fiction #GreatBritain #IntelligenceService #IntelligenceServiceGreatBritainFiction #LaundryFiles #OccultFiction #ParanormalFiction #review #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #TwoHourLiteratureFictionShortReads #TwoHourScienceFictionFantasyShortReads
@Turr1caN Here's the blurb: "The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horrors imaginable. For, as it turns out, unicorns are real. They're also ravenous killers from beyond spacetime..." #LaundryFiles
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