The Atrocity Archives: Book 1 in The Laundry Files

Charles Stross

Nov 2010 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

'Brilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time' Ben Aaronovitch on the Laundry Files

'Tremendously good, geeky fun' Telegraph on the Laundry Files

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.

Praise for this series:

'Charles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now' Warren Ellis

'Stross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better' KIRKUS

'Alternately chilling and hilarious' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

'Ferociously enjoyable - SFX

Ratings and reviews

I could not get into book at all. Mli

Superb, not something I would normally have read but now that I have I'm hooked.

I love it. Best read in years.

About the author

Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, two of which are part of the Laundry Files series, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages. As the owner of degrees in pharmacy and computer science, he graduated as the world's only academically qualified cyberpunk writer just as cyberpunk died. Today he describes his job as telling lies for money and tormenting his imaginary friends. Follow his blog at http://www.accelerando.org/ and his Twitter feed at @cstross.