NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ... Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out ... This is the first novel in the Laundry Files. [Goodreads] * ► TRULY WEIRD... WONDERFUL FUN. ◄ Publishers Weekly A Kansas City Star Noteworthy Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicie Holiday Recommended Book One of Locus Online's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Year One of Chronicle's Best Science Fiction Books of the Year ► Like his peer Cory Doctorow, Stross has an ironie Generation X sensibility, conditioned, in his case, by time spent in the simultaneously thrilling and boring world of information technology. In THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES, Stross's genius lies in devoting fully as much time to the bureaucratic shenanigans of the Laundry as he does to its thaumaturgic mission. What with all the persnickety time charts and useless meetings Howard has to deal with, it's a wonder the world gets saved at all. ◄ Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post Book World ► Much of the action is completely nuts, but Stross manages to ground it in believability through his protagonist's deadpan reactions to both insane Office politics and supernatural mayhem. ◄ San Francisco Chronicie ► If this keeps up, 'Strossian' is going to become a sci-fi adjective... Charles Stross writes with intelligence and enjoys lifting the rock to show you what's crawling underneath... The clever results will bring a smile to your face. ◄ The Kansas City Star Includes the Hugo Award-winning " The Concrete Jungle" * Cover art by Mark Fredrickson Introduction: Charlie's Demons / Ken MacLeod Afterword: Inside the Fear Factory / Charles Stross Originally serialized in Spectrum SF No. 7, November 2001, through No. 9, November 2002 (as " The Atrocity Archive") Golden Gryphon hardcover edition / May 2004 Ace trade paperback edition / January 2006 This, mass-market edition, January 2009 pages: xix+345
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