Atrocity Archives

Name: Atrocity Archives
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Charles Stross
ISBN: 9781440790928

Author: Charles Stross

Series: The Laundry Files series #1

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC

Published: 03/10/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A Hugo Award winner and best-selling author, Charles Stross combines the best elements of science fiction and fantasy. In The Atrocity Archives, 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 only his smarts and a disembodied hand that renders him invisible. Stross’ award-winning novella, The Concrete Jungle, is also included.

About Charles Stross

CHARLES STROSS (he/him) is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has won three Hugo Awards for Best Novella, including for the Laundry Files tale “Equoid.” His work has been translated into over twelve languages. His novels include the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series (including Locus Award finalist The Dilirium Brief), and several stand-alones including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world’s first officially qualified cyberpunk writer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on April 30, 2015

so there's all sorts of nerds in the world, right? so many different kinds and really they don't have a lot in common outside of their basic nerdiness. I was out for drinks last Friday and someone made some kind of joke about renaming a lesbian club "Aphrodite" and I responded that that doesn't make......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on January 17, 2018

Update 1/17/18 This is the third read and since I keep getting more excited every time I read it, I'm breaking down and just plopping a big extra star on for sheer enjoyment. I've decided this book is not only Spy Fiction with a Cthulhu twist with lots of super geeky math moments, but it's also Physic......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on August 29, 2015

Charles Stross is an author I want to like. I like his blogs, I like his personality and honesty (in so far as one can gauge such things based on the author's writings, interviews and such). The only snag is I am somewhat ambivalent about his fiction. I don't doubt that he is a talented writer of sc......more

Goodreads review by Kylie on June 19, 2019

I wasn't sure if I'd like this book or not, but I did end up enjoying it. The only reason I didn't give it 4 stars was there was too much technical jargon that I didn't understand. But all in all an ok read.......more

Goodreads review by Belarius on January 26, 2008

Every so often I come across a book so laden with obscure references that only my own particular predisposition to trivia sees me through to the other side. Charles Stross has accomplished just such a feat with The Atrocity Archives, a bewildering, fascinating, and very funny look inside the bureauc......more