Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Classified Appendix (p. 354)
The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Quotes from workThe Laundry Files
The Laundry Files is a series of novels by Charles Stross. They mix the genres of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and workplace humour. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard" , a one-time I.T. consultant turned occult field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the Q-Division of SOE, otherwise known as "the Laundry", the British government agency which deals with occult threats. "Magic" is described as being a branch of applied computation , therefore computers and equations are just as useful, and perhaps more potent, than classic spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for the purpose of influencing ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also elements of dry humour and satirisation of bureaucracy.
“Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Overtime (2009)
The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
The Curse of Laundry http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/10/the-curse-of-laundry.html, October 19, 2014 <br class="br">The Laundry Files
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.
Overtime (2009)
The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
This is how the iron law of bureaucracy installs itself at the heart of an institution. Most of the activities of any bureaucracy are devoted not to the organization’s ostensible goals, but to ensuring that the organization survives: because if they aren’t, the bureaucracy has a life expectancy measured in days before some idiot decision maker decides that if it’s no use to them they can make political hay by destroying it. It’s no consolation that some time later someone will realize that an organization was needed to carry out the original organization’s task, so a replacement is created: you still lost your job and the task went undone. The only sure way forward is to build an agency that looks to its own survival before it looks to its mission statement. Just another example of evolution in action.
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 16, “Democracy in Action” (pp. 311-312)
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“How indeed.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 14, “Infected” (p. 284)
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 14, “Infected” (p. 266)
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 11, “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” (p. 197)
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 10, “Great Pay and Benefits! Apply Here!” (p. 184)
“Unfortunately his IQ seems to be off the scale, in the wrong direction.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 10, “Great Pay and Benefits! Apply Here!” (p. 182)
“If pauses can be pregnant, this one’s on the run from a fertility clinic.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 89)
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 77)
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 4, “Briefings” (p. 63)
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Source: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 12, “Green Lime” (p. 240)
“Having a policy based on works of fiction is worse than having no policy at all.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 12, “Green Lime” (p. 229)
