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In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to The Atrocity Archives (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer übergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent manipulation of complex mathematical equations: in other words, magic. In 1975, the CIA used Howard Hughes's Glomar Explorer in a bungled attempt to raise a sunken Soviet submarine in order to access the Jennifer Morgue, an occult device that allows communication with the dead. Now a ruthless billionaire intends to try again, even if by doing so he awakens the Great Old Ones, who thwarted the earlier expedition. It's up to Bob and a collection of British eccentrics even Monty Python would consider odd to stop the bad guy and save the world, while getting receipts for all expenditures or else face the most dreaded menace of all: the Laundry's own auditors. Stross has a marvelous time making eldritch horror appear commonplace in the face of bureaucracy. (Dec.)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Ace (December 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0441018149
  • ISBN-13: 978-0441018147
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A scary send-up of Lovecraft, Bond, and Cold War spy novels, December 3, 2006
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Like it's predecessor, "The Atrocity Archives," "The Jennifer Morgue" is based upon the premise that all of those nasty Lovecraftian horrors are real, all of the world governments know about it, and are engaged in an ongoing and highly secret occult intelligence gathering/arms race. A few other writers have mined this same vein, most notably Tim Powers in "Declare." But in contrast to Powers, Stross leaves no doubt that his tongue is firmly planted in cheek. The current volume is not only a send up of the cold war spy novel, but specifically of James Bond. Fortunately, Stross has the extraordinarily rare ability to satirize a genre without losing sight of what makes that genre work. Stross's Lovecraftian horrors are actually scary--in fact more so than those of most other writers who've tried to write serious Lovecraftian horror (which turns out to be surprisingly difficult to pull off). The cold war style intrigue, with intricately layered plots and counterplots also works beautifully. Stross could doubtless be a master of either genre if he could bring himself to take them seriously. But that's alright, because this is better. Much of the humor comes from Stross's hero and narrator, a cynical hacker forcibly inducted into the British occult intelligence service. As such, he is completely out of place in either of the genre's Stross is satirizing (watching him try to fit into a Bond-type plot is particularly amusing), yet in the world Stross has created for us, he is clearly the perfect man for the job. Along the way, Stross manages a particularly sharp (but somehow affectionate) deconstruction of the entire Bond canon.

I'd encourage Stross to drop everything else and devote all of his time to writing sequels in this series, except there's nothing else that he writes that I'd be willing to give up. Still, none of his other work manages to be quite this much fun.


 
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Novel - For The Right Reader, March 21, 2007
This review is from: The Jennifer Morgue (Hardcover)
If you liked The Atrocity Archives, you'll love The Jennifer Morgue. If some of the more geeky computer references confused you, you'll still enjoy the basic story here (everybody's seen James Bond movies, after all) but again you'll be missing half the fun.

As another reviewer has indicated, to get full appreciation of every little nuance, you need to be an old school UNIX geek, preferably with a familiarity with the Internet that stretches back a decade or two, who still yearns for the days when USENET ruled, and before The Eternal September began.

Not meeting all these criteria doesn't mean you won't find this hugely enjoyable, but the more of them you meet, the more you'll enjoy the book. Having known Charlie since before he'd had anything published and used to hang out in some of the seedier USENET groups, I think I fall fairly firmly into the target audience, and even I missed one or two of the cleverer references first time round. However, I read the book cover to cover in a single sitting and enjoyed every page. Multiple re-reads are a must, the cover's as superb a homage to the book's influences as the story itself, and the story itself leaves an impressive number of openings for more Bob Howards books, from direct tie-ins to the implications of GREEN NIGHTMARE, which Charlie seems to have put in place specifically to give him a way to shut down the Bob Howard universe completely should he ever tire of writing about the character.

Personally, I hope he doesn't tire of writing about Bob for a long, long time. Haven't enjoyed a book so much in years. In fact, although it's a very different sort of book, the last thing I read that established a permanent niche for itself in my mind so quickly was Pratchett/Gaiman's Good Omens in the early 90s. I'm picky about what I read, and I place these two books in a separate little league, all of their own.


 
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5.0 out of 5 stars SciFi would be on top, if all novels were like this..., November 4, 2007
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This novel actually creeped me out a few times and had me rolling on the floor with laughter most of the time. SciFi would be the topseller in genre fiction, if more novels were like this one. Stross skewers James Bond, flips the Lovecraft style horror novels on their ear, infuses some of the best IT and hacker details that I've read in a novel, incorporates a pretty good love story paired with a perfectly frightening stalking, all while careening hilariously through a landscape littered with zombies, creatures from the deep, creatures from the universe's deep past, and more.
This novel provides one blisteringly hot answer to those readers who complain that there's not much new or fresh in SciFi. I say you're looking for authors on the wrong side of the pond. Some of the best SF to be found, these days, is coming from Britain (Scotland, in Stross' case).

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, But Not Great
Theoretically, this is a great book.

I love Stross's straight science fiction, and I'm a huge fan of both Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and Broccoli's Bond Mythos.
Published 1 month ago by Oakree Kuchenbacker

4.0 out of 5 stars A better novel than the Atrocity Archive
In The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross delivered a short novel, a longish novella, and an essay about the intersection between horror and the spy novel.
Published 2 months ago by Michael Lichter

3.0 out of 5 stars Tries too hard
As others have mentioned, this book tries to force the supernatural setting from the Atrocity Archives into a James Bond take-off.
Published 3 months ago by Voracious Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars ROFLMAO while trying to keep reading because this book is so good.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Charles Stross doesn't just make the words sing and dance, he makes my mind sing and dance. What more can I say?
Published 8 months ago by W. J. Bodrero

2.0 out of 5 stars Did not get it.
I feel like the only sane person in an asylum. I'm not a programmer, but I'm technically savvy enough to get most of the references, even if I don't find them particularly funny...
Published 8 months ago by Ern

4.0 out of 5 stars James Bond meets Dagon
I thought this was hilarious, and immensely clever, as the other reviews said.

I loved this book and will now search out other books by Charles Stross,...
Published 10 months ago by Mujtaba Ghouse

3.0 out of 5 stars A little on the nose ...
The main story is a decent page-turner, and with a basic premise that merges Lovecraft with Flemming, it's hard to lose.
Published 10 months ago by K. Mai

4.0 out of 5 stars Good continuation of the Bob Howard series
I enjoyed this episode in the continuing adventures of Bob Howard, computational demonologist, dealing as usual with a mortal threat to the world from a mixture of H.P.
Published 11 months ago by B. Robert Helm

4.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the first one!
An hilarious combination of Lovecraftian horror, spies with the initials "JB", and hacker culture, this second book in Stross's "Laundry" series takes up where the first left off,...
Published 12 months ago by Shannon K. Roy

5.0 out of 5 stars SO good!
Although this is a sequel to Halting State, it stands on it's own and is so cleverly written and funny.
Published 12 months ago by Val

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