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21.
Charles Stross - The Nightmare Stacks
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(Review)
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Why, welcome back to my on-going catch-up with one of the most enjoyable series of books I’ve had the pleasure to sit down with (and miss bus/train stops) in a long while. I’m talking about Charles Stross’ ...
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Created on 02 April 2018
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22.
Charles Stross – The Delirium Brief
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(Review)
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... absent in later ones, of course. But also from the point of reviewing them – I mean, The Delirium Brief is book 8 (plus some short stories etc) in Charles Stross' highly entertaining Laundry Files series. ...
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Created on 03 November 2018
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23.
Charles Stross – The Labyrinth Index
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(Review)
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... those new to the matter, who are reading a review of a book deep into the series – Charles Stross is a Scotland-based writer of SF and Fantasy (classifications can be a bit tricky with his output at times) ...
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Created on 15 November 2018
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24.
Charles Stross – Dead Lies Dreaming
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(Review)
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... and titled Quantum of Nightmares). Which does not mean that you shouldn't read the rest of the series, which is excellent. Just that you don't need to do so beforehand!
Charles Stross is a British writer ...
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Created on 03 April 2022
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Charles Stross – Quantum of Nightmares
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(Review)
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Given that Charles Stross has ben publishing his award-winning Laundry Files since 2004, and is 12 books and a number of short stories and novellas into it I don't think anybody needs an introduction to ...
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Created on 26 March 2023
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26.
Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archives
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(Editor's Pick)
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Created on 18 October 2010
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27.
Charles Stoss - Iron Sunrise
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(Review)
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Iron Sunrise, the second book in Charles Stross' Timelike Diplomacy series (as it is now known) starts with a bang. A big one. When the planet of Moscow, a happy, democratic, quite enlightened (if slightly ...
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Created on 02 May 2010
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Ken MacLeod - The Star Fraction
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(Review)
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... down on you from orbit ... Like Charles Stross' Accelerando this book has, seen in retrospect (not something that is obvious at the beginning) no human central protagonist (sorry Manny, sorry Moh!), and, ...
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Created on 14 March 2010
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29.
Charles Platt – The Silicon Man
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(Review)
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The Silicon Man by Charles Platt is a very thorough treaty on the foibles of ‘Uploading’ people (in the vein of Charles Stross’ Accelerando or other books on a similar topic…), mixed with a good old detective ...
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Created on 19 April 2013
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30.
Peter Watts – Beyond the Rift
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(Review)
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... We’re being led astray in a Frederic Brown manner, but with an ambiance feeling more reminiscent of Charles Stross’ Scratch Monkey, for some reason. Sterling stuff.
The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald ...
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Created on 19 December 2013
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Ian Whates (Ed.) - Fables from the Fountain
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(Review)
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... Charles Stross, James Lovegrove, Adam Roberts, Liz Williams, or Ian Watson here. You might have heard of the odd one of them?
Fables from the Fountain is edited by Ian Whates - himself an SF writer, ...
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Created on 06 January 2015
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Ken MacLeod - The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
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(Review)
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... don’t agree on what is ‘real’ and what is ‘sim’, never mind what the relevant distinction is. Charles Stross’ Alien Snail, decanted into a body in physical reality for the first time, did not have the ...
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Created on 20 July 2016
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33.
Peter Watts – The Freeze-Frame Revolution
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(Review)
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... a near-panopticon, really raised comparisons with Charles Stross' Glasshouse for me.
As mentioned before, we get to see everything from Sunday's 1st person viewpoint – full story exhibition, her inner ...
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Created on 17 July 2018
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34.
Lavie Tidhar - The Violent Century
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(Review)
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... only in references or similarities; Charles Stross’ The Annihilation Score is an obvious comparison (Superheroes, UK Secret Agency, Shell Games…) but as clearly not an influence given the publication timelines; ...
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Created on 07 February 2020
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