Dead Lies Dreaming, Charles Stross
Dead Lies Dreaming, Charles Stross
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Dead Lies Dreaming

Author: Charles Stross

Narrator: Gideon Emery

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/27/2020

Synopsis

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel.

As Wendy hunts down Imp?the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”? she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere.

In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.

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

Sometimes I'm just astounded. After reading this book, I'm not only reeling after a great Heist story, but I'm rocking to a Dark Fantasy that happens to be Hard SF while very much being a Superhero tale being couched in a Lovecraftian universe while setting me up to be murdered by Bond in its classi......more

Goodreads review by Trish

This was definitely worth the wait!!! This 10th volume in the Laundry Files series is either a fun standalone or the beginning or something new. In the previous volume, the Black Pharao finally made it into our realm, leaving his pyramid on the dark moon behind and taking over Downing Street. In time......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian

I generally enjoy the Laundryverse, and the style is the usual enjoyable smart-ass Stross, and I get what he is trying to do, but this one just didn’t work for me. Usually when Stross is riffing, pastiching or playing off of other writers and their characters I can’t really spot what he is doing unt......more

Goodreads review by David

I loved the original laundry files. As time goes on, Charles Stross has gotten more and more shrill about his political leanings, and in this one he's finally reached the point where you can't hear the story over it. I could see it coming for the last several laundry volumes, but this one was too fa......more

Goodreads review by Alick

it was everywhere. when government middle managers talk about offshore tax vehicles using a dutch double irish sandwich it's like yeah that's fine, but when a bunch of stoner criminals are talking like that it's like no these are a different type of people what are you doing. Mr Stross can write Bob......more

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