The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross
The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross
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The Jennifer Morgue

Author: Charles Stross

Narrator: Gideon Emery

Unabridged: 13 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/16/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross continues to make a name for himself in the sci-fi genre. The Jennifer Morgue is an extension of Stross' award-winning novella The Concrete Jungle. Bob Howard is a special operative for the British agency called The Laundry, and his task is to stop a rogue billionaire from using an artifact, known as Gravedust, with the power to reanimate the dead. The U.S. Black Agency sends the lethal Ramona Random to aid Bob's mission, but she seems to have a different agenda.

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 J.L.

“The Laundry field operations manual is notably short on advice for how to comport one’s self when being held prisoner aboard a mad billionaire necromancer’s yacht, other than the usual stern admonition to keep receipts.” Combining a tribute to Ian Fleming (and his hero, James Bond) with Lovecraftian......more

Goodreads review by Trish

This is the second book in the Laundry Files series and proudly presented to you by Cthulhu-like oceanic overlords as well as Ian Flemming and a certain agent he created. Once again, Bob is more stumbling than purposefully walking and it frustrates him and the reader alike. It's not frustrating as in......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

Third read! 2/23/18: I'll give a more loving review this time. :) After much much reflection, I have to say that this is probably the funniest of all the Laundry Files books. The Ian Flemming style works perfectly not only for the plot, the geshes, and the snark... but for the fast pacing and the dry,......more

Goodreads review by Jordi

Menuda brutalidad de libro. Tengo los sesos que me echan humo. Nunca pensé que leería un infodump sobre la historia de los sistemas de eyección de la cabina en helicópteros, pero eh, este libro lo tiene, junto a muchos otros infodumps que molan mucho. Lo recomiendo a frikis de a) la informática, b)......more

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