The Fuller Memorandum

by Charles Stross

Ace Hardcover (320 pages)
Keyword(s): Speculative fiction
Dates read: August 28-31, 2010, Rating: ****

The Laundry Files is quickly becoming my favorite sci/fi universe. The combination of computer geekery, theorem-based magic, James Bond-esque spy gadgets, Lovecraftian aliens, and hopeless bureaucracy is intoxicatingly fun, and Stross is very good at keeping things moving without ever getting predictable.

I enjoyed the heck out of The Fuller Memorandum. I liked it a lot better than The Jennifer Morgue, and it even edges out The Atrocity Archives to become my favorite entry in the series. It probably wouldn't work well as a standalone book, because it is jammed full of references to the first two books and the two excellent short-stories "Down on the Farm" and "Overtime" (both stories can be found for free online).

Great stuff!

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