Review: Classic Stross and classic Laundry
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
This is classic Stross, and classic Laundry material. Bob gets sent to look into what he is told should be a simple problem, which turns out to be anything but. This one has an enjoyable hook back to HP Lovecraft which fans of both his fiction and Stross should enjoy. The usual sharp analysis of bureaucracy and human ability to fool itself, and a great mingling of fairytale/folk mythology and magic/biology, which I thought was cleverly done. (Has Stross ever written anything that wasn't great?) If you haven't read others in the series then I would start with at least The Atrocity Archives before you read this.