Escape from Yokai Land, Charles Stross
Escape from Yokai Land, Charles Stross
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Escape from Yokai Land

Author: Charles Stross

Narrator: Gideon Emery

Unabridged: 1 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/01/2022

Synopsis

Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks, and his subsequent return from Tokyo at the start of The Delirium Brief.

Escape from Yokai Land explains what he was doing there.

Bob's been assigned to work with the Miyamoto Group, checking the wards that lock down Japan's warded sites—a task previously handled by his predecessor Dr. Angleton, the Eater of Souls. This mostly involves policing yokai: traditional magical beings, increasingly grown more annoying and energetic.

But then Bob's simple trip turns into a deadly confrontation with the ultimate yokai. It's massively powerful. It's pink. And it says "Hello."

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 Trish on March 09, 2022

BOB IS BACK! Well, not really. But kinda. You see, this little story takes place in spring of 2014 so it's a flashback for us readers. Still, BOB IS BACK! Gods, I've missed the baby-Eater-of-Souls. I only realized just HOW MUCH I've missed him while reading this vastly amusing story of him traveling......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 09, 2022

I really, really needed this. YES. Bob is Back. Mr. Eater of Souls. In Japan. Muahahahahahaha Okay, honestly, I'm still laughing my ass off with this short story. The cuteness factor is at level 10. AND SO IS THE EVIL. No spoilers. But this is exactly what I've been missing in my life. Thank you, thank......more

Goodreads review by Brent on March 10, 2022

Glad to see Bob back in action in this novella. Stross has said that Bob has grown too powerful to be "interesting" any more, but I disagree. I want to see more of Bob and Mo and how they are doing after the catastrophic events of The Delirium Brief. The most recent novels appear to have skipped ove......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 16, 2022

OK, so first out - it's the return of Bob, who is a much more endearing character than anyone in the New Management series, so there's that. But once you get beyond that point - this is a very slight story, limited in detail and plot, not brilliantly edited, and feels like it was dashed off in a lunc......more

Goodreads review by Ian on May 22, 2022

First thing is to echo other reviewers delight that Bob is back. The Laundry Files have taken a significant downturn since Stross got fed up with him. Sadly this short novella is actually a call back to Book 8, acting as a prologue to that installment of the series. At his best this author can pull o......more

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