The Jennifer Morgue is the second novella in Charlie Stross's Lovecraft-meets-geekery Laundry series; it's more sophisticated than The Atrocity Archives, with a more coherent overarching story, several plot twists, and ambitious attempts to mimic and subvert James Bond tropes ( Read more... )

The Atrocity Archives is Charlie Stross's novel-sized installment of the short stories you can find online (I read Down on the Farm first but you might as well read The Atrocity Archive so you know what's going on). It's sci-fi meets spy thriller meets Lovecraft and computer science/information theory/quantum mechanics, and I enjoyed it a lot ( Read more... )