The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4)

by Charles Stross

‘Ninety-eight percent of management work in this organization is routine. The other two percent is a tightrope walk over an erupting volcano without a safety net. Congratulations: here’s your balance pole.’

Q: What are we going to do tonight, Brains? A: The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the world!

‘Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.’

(Fucking netbooks; you can’t even use one to beat an alien brain parasite to death without it breaking.)

channeling. The usual all-your-souls-are-belong-to-me bullshit,