A lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he's faced with saving the universe using...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Planet Moscow is vaporized by an unnatural star explosion, prompting those who escaped to counterattack the likely culprit--planet New Dresden of the neighboring system. But New Dresden wasn't to...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Bob Howard is a special operative for the British agency called The Laundry, and his task is to stop a rogue billionaire from using an artifact, known as Gravedust, with the power to reanimate the...
Genre: Horror fiction -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Stross offers a Kafkaesque tale in which a man, Robin, awakes in a clinic with severe memory loss. Finding himself targeted by a deadly opponent, Robin takes a calculated gamble and volunteers to...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Covert agent Bob Howard is learning about a top-secret dossier that vanishes with his boss. Determined to discover the contents of this memorandum, Howard runs afoul of Russian spies, ancient...
Genre: Paranormal fiction -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Occasionally hapless British agent Bob Howard tackles a case involving an American televangelist and a supernatural threat of global proportions.
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
As head of the Rule 34 Squad, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh keeps a close eye on Internet activity, monitoring whether people are participating in harmless fantasies or engaging in illegal...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically...
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Author: Doctorow, Cory, Stross, CharlesSummary:At the dusk of the twenty-first century, the splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system sometimes spams Earth's networks with plans for disastrously disruptive technologies. It is the job of...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
The Laundry Files' "fast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horror" (SFX) continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Paranormal fiction -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
The ninth case in Stross' Hugo-winning Laundry Files, described by Kirkus as "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror."The...
Genre: Paranormal fiction -
Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry--the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats--Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative...
Genre: Science fiction