The Jennifer Morgue
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Manufacturer: Golden Gryphon Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781930846456
ISBN: 1930846452
Label: Golden Gryphon Press
Manufacturer: Golden Gryphon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 340
Publication Date: 2006-11
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press
Studio: Golden Gryphon Press
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Bob Howard—a T-shirt–wearing computer geek and field agent for the super-secret British government agency The Laundry—must save the world from eldritch horrors, codenamed Jennifer Morgue, in this fast-paced spy thriller. Bob's current mission is to stop the evil Ellis Billington from achieving world domination, but he must overcome obstacles including the Gravedust device, which permits communication with the dead; destiny-entanglement protocol; banishment weapons; and Ramona Random, a lethal but beautiful agent for the U.S. counterpart to The Laundry. Billington plans to raise the eldritch horror Jennifer Morgue from the vasty deeps, and communicate with a dead warrior for the purpose of ruling the world. Blending physics and applied mathematics with the practice of summoning and demonology, this spy-meets-horror novel will keep sci-fi fans on the edge of their seats. This volume also includes a bonus story, "Pimpf," featuring agent Bob Howard in the world of virtual gaming, as well as an afterword entitled "The Golden Age of Spying."
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Summary: Super Reader
Comment: What do you get if you cross
a) Lovecraft
b) James Bond
c) A bunch of computer geekery
The answer, in this case, is a really good book. Presuming you have some interest in any of the above.
The supervillain of the piece wants to control the world, of course, but with Deep Ones in the picture, it won't be pretty.
Stross plays with the Bond character types here, but the hitwoman is a halfing from Dunwich with a demon problem, for example. There's a geas that makes them follow the movie story patterns with a little help from an occult device that lets you talk to the dead. Ian Fleming, of course, is dead.
Someone who has Robert Howard as an alias playing a part in a Bond movie is a bit croggling, too.
Bob, of course, has nowhere near the budget for punting and wrecking stuff that 007 does, either, making do with his magic capable smartphone and a usb key with a linux distribution.
All lots of fun.
The story 'Pimpf' is included afterwards, as is a fictional non-fiction Wold-Newtonesque type piece on how the whole Bond spy thing fits into Bob Howard's world.
Pimpf
Bob Howard manages to get told off for not playing MMORPG's enough at work, given that is his current assignment, to stop real monsters gaining a foothold there.
He even gets an intern, asthe Laundry finds a kid who gets in deeper than he should while playing and hacking, and hands him to Bob. They go on a bit of a dungeon bash to save the day.
4.5 out of 5
Customer Rating:
Summary: Super Reader
Comment: What do you get if you cross
a) Lovecraft
b) James Bond
c) A bunch of computer geekery
The answer, in this case, is a really good book. Presuming you have some interest in any of the above.
The supervillain of the piece wants to control the world, of course, but with Deep Ones in the picture, it won't be pretty.
Stross plays with the Bond character types here, but the female assassin is a halfing from Dunwich with a demon problem, for example. There's a geas that makes them follow the movie story patterns with a little help from an occult device that lets you talk to the dead. Ian Fleming, of course, is dead.
Someone who has Robert Howard as an alias playing a part in a Bond movie is a bit croggling, too.
Bob, of course, has nowhere near the budget for punting and wrecking stuff that 007 does, either, making do with his magic capable smartphone and a usb key with a linux distribution.
All lots of fun.
The story 'Pimpf' is included afterwards, as is a fictional non-fiction Wold-Newtonesque type piece on how the whole Bond spy thing fits into Bob Howard's world.
Pimpf
Bob Howard manages to get told off for not playing MMORPG's enough at work, given that is his current assignment, to stop real monsters gaining a foothold there.
He even gets an intern, asthe Laundry finds a kid who gets in deeper than he should while playing and hacking, and hands him to Bob. They go on a bit of a dungeon bash to save the day.
4.5 out of 5
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great SF but not the best by Stross
Comment: I've become a great fan of Charles Stross. I think his earlier books accelerando and even glasshouse are master pieces. I also love "the mearchants war" series of fantasy.
This book, the Jennifer Morgue, are a follow on to the Atrocity Archives. It is not as good as the Atrocity archives but close. This probably because I like Lovecraft more then Flemming. The Archives where a "parody" of Lovecraft's style and this one more on Ian Flemming. The books are not parody per se but borrows a style. I wonder what style he will do next, the rumors says spy thriller.
The story is fast paced and hilarious and Stross has a great ability to make the absurd seem reasonable and logic. The fact that the hero struggles with department bureaucracy adds to the flavor.
I still miss Stross' harder SciFi but this is still a great (summer) read.
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Summary: early novel
Comment: An early novel very different from his current work. A James Bond send-up. Science fiction, James Bond and magic--what could be better? His current novels are much better.
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Summary: James Bond meets Chtulhu
Comment: Spys, tentacled horrors from the abysses of space and ocean, last minute rescues, sly humor, and, above all, clever writing makes this second installment of the escapades of the Bob Howard & other Laundry employees makes you hope there will be more tales in this series.
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