Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first book in the Laundry series, introducing computer expert and reluctant hero Bob Howard, who works for a secret British occult intelligence organization, here fighting an ancient evil from an alternate universe released by the Nazi SS. A cross of spy thriller with horror fiction written in the idiom of Len Deighton. Besides the title fix-up novel the book includes a previously unpublished novella "The Concrete Jungle," which won the 2005 Hugo Award for best novella. 3000 copies printed. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $24.95 on the front flap. (#173349).

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Title

THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES .

Publisher

Golden Gryphon Press, [Urbana, IL]

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

1930846258

ISBN 13

9781930846258

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

The father of modern computer science, Alan Turning paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when used by Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS to perform a summoning, results in an unexpected evil brought to Earth through a portal to an alternate universe.

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""Stross has gene-spliced H. P. Lovecraft and Len Deighton to produce a SF thriller that is both witty and unsettling."

"Like his peer Cory Doctorow, Stross has an ironic Generation X sensibility, conditioned, in his case, by time spent in the simultaneously thrilling and boring world of information technology. In The Atrocity Archives, Stross's genius lies in devoting fully as much time to the bureaucratic shenanigans of the Laundry as he does to its thaumaturgic mission." - The Washington Post Book World
"Much of the action is completely nuts, but Stross manages to ground it in believability through his protagonist's deadpan reactions to both insane office politics and supernatural mayhem." - San Francisco Chronicle
"If this keeps up, 'Strossian' is going to become a sci-fi adjective...Charles Stross writes with intelligence and enjoys lifting the rock to show you what's crawling underneath...The clever results will bring a smile to your face." - The Kansas City Star

"It's science fiction's most pleasant surprise of the year." - San Francisco Chronicle

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