Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 7, “Officer Friendly” (p. 113)
Quotes from work
The 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.
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 301)
“Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Epilogue, “Debrief” (p. 360)
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 347)
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 321)
“Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 296)
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 244)
“Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 236)
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 6, “Leviathan’s Representative” (p. 193)
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 40)
“A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 37)
“Venous blood isn’t really blue. In lipstick terms it’s dark plum, not crimson gloss.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 13)
