num_pages: 32
description: In Charles Strosss novel The Atrocity Archive and its sequels the Laundry is a secret British agency responsible for keeping dark interdimensional entitities from destroying the cosmos and not incidentally the human race. The battles with creatures from beyond time are dangerous; however its the subsequent bureaucratic paperwork that actually breaks mens souls. Now in Down on the Farm Laundry veteran Bob Howard must investigate strange doings at another obscure moth-eaten government agencyevidently a rest home for Laundry agents whose minds have snapped Charles Stross is the Hugo-winning author of some of the most acclaimed novels and stories of the last ten years including Singularity Sky Accelerando Halting State the Merchant Princes series beginning with The Family Trade and the story collections Toast and Wireless. In 2010 his Laundry story Overtime published on Tor is a finalist for science fictions Hugo Award.
language: English
title: Down on the Farm
publisher: tor.com