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Charles Stross
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November 2011
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The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)
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2004
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47 editions
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Accelerando
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2005
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56 editions
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
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2003
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The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2)
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2006
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The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)
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2010
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Halting State (Halting State, #1)
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2007
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The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4)
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2012
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Glasshouse
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2006
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The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5)
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2014
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
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2004
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Pushing it back
(On vacation this month, hence lack of blogging ...)
Apparently archaeologists have discovered the eearliest known wooden structure in Kalambo Falls, Zambia: two cut logs bearing tool marks that were shaped and joined to form part of a structure—476,000 years ago. Click through the link above for details as to how they dated it, and why it appears to have survived: it's being reported in Nature so
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The Rhesus Chart was written in 2010; Season of Skulls was written in 2021-22, seven books (and nearly a million words) later! It's a retcon. Also, to Old George his relationship with Eve was water under the bridge from 200 years previously—he had no
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Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
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It's going to be based on Cubicle 7's own ruleset. (I know no more.)
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Finding true love in the cosmos
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*pre-20K or a bit more breakaway civilisation that got away before the Younger Dryas event and now technically are aliens?*
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Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)
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Quoting lyrics verbatim in books is tricky, and I didn't want BMI/ASCAP or the Talking Heads agent to come after me with a pointy stick and a lawsuit
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I have provisional plans for a fourth New Management book. But not until after at least one (and possibly two) more of the original Laundry series, to
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Author here: please note that the reviewers leaving a 5-* and 3-* review are lying. I haven't finished writing the book yet—it's a work in progress—and it CANNOT be published before mid-2024 (or, more likely, 2025). ...more |
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You're missing the enormous discussion thread (over 450 comments so far) on my blog.
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“Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”
― Overtime
― Overtime
“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
― The Atrocity Archives
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