The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross
The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross
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The Delirium Brief

Author: Charles Stross

Narrator: Gideon Emery

Unabridged: 13 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2017

Synopsis

The eighth case in Charles Stross' Laundry Files, the Hugo Award-winning series described by Kirkus Reviews as "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror." Bob Howard's career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic, and combat with indescribably repellent creatures of pure evil. It has also involved a wearying amount of paperwork and office politics, and his expense reports are still a mess. Now, following the invasion of Yorkshire by the Host of Air and Darkness, the Laundry's existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organization has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a British government looking for public services to privatize. There's a lot of potential shareholder value in the Laundry's "knowledge assets." Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.

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 Bradley on August 23, 2018

Second read in about a single year. How about that? But the series is great and I feel nothing but happiness when reading it. BOB IS BACK. I admit I've been missing him. Suffice to say, I'm REALLY looking forward to the next and latest book to come out at the end of October! Could anything get MORE F......more

Goodreads review by Trish on August 30, 2018

This eighth book in the Laundry series is a bit darker than the others. Not as much as I had expected after some warnings (after all, we had baby-sacrificing religious nutters before) but still dark. It's the end of the world after all. Or one of the ends. An old enemy has made his way back across t......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on February 23, 2020

This is my first encounter with Stross and his British ministry in charge of keeping the supernatural from consuming the Earth that we know. Urban fantasy is a popular genre with many vying for your attention. Though this is book 8 in the series, I grabbed it off the shelf on a whim and I am glad th......more

Goodreads review by Olav on July 12, 2017

Full disclosure, I'm a bit of a Charlie Stross fanboy. That being said, The Delirium Brief is that rare sequel that elevates the books that preceded it. Laundry Files novels have occasionally been amazing, and rarely disappointing (Jennifer Morgue being the low point IMHO), but this one followed thr......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 03, 2017

**SPOILERS AHEAD** With The Delirium Brief, Stross reaches an aggressive midgame of The Laundry series. The past five books were setting pieces on the board, moving pawns, feint with a knight or bishop. Now, he savagely uses those pieces, cutting down whole swaths of the setting. Expect to see all yo......more

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