Showing posts with label The Atrocity Archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Atrocity Archives. Show all posts
WEDNESDAY, May 17th @ 7PM: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Concludes - NO, Really! We Mean It!
WEDNESDAY, April 10th at 7PM: The Exciting Conclusion of THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES
"...With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult
and the mundane, the truly weird and the petty. In "Atrocity," Bob, a
low-level computer fix-it guy for the Laundry, a supersecret British agency
that defends the world from occult happenings, finds himself promoted to
fieldwork after he bravely saves the day during a routine demonstration gone
awry. With his Palm, aka his Hand of Glory (a severed hand that, when ignited,
renders the holder invisible), and his smarts, he saves the world from a
powerful external force seeking to enter our universe to suck it dry. In
"Jungle," Bob teams up with a cop, Josephine, to save the Laundry
from a powermonger who seeks to stage an internal coup by using zombies as her
minions."
~ Publisher's Weekly
Join Corwyn Allen presents the exciting conclusion of The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, May 3rd at 7PM: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Resume
"Lovecraft's Cthulhu meets Len Deighton's spies in Stross's latest, as the Scottish author explains in his afterword to this offbeat book offering two related long novellas, "The Atrocity Archive" and "The Concrete Jungle" (the latter previously unpublished). With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult and the mundane, the truly weird and the petty..."~ Agent, Caitlin Blasdell at Liza Dawson Associates for Publisher's Weekly
Join Corwyn Allen as he resumes The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, April 19th at 7pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Continues
~ Agent, Caitlin Blasdell at Liza Dawson Associates for Publisher's Weekly
Join Corwyn Allen as he continues The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, April 12th at 7PM: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Continues
"Stross has gene-spliced H. P. Lovecraft and Len Deighton to produce a SF thriller that is both witty and unsettling."
Join Corwyn Allen as he continues The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, April 5th at 7pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES Returns
Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.
Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out…
Join Corwyn Allen as he resumes The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, January 25th at 7pm: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE ~ Part 1 Continues
"Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a
super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world,
Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the
jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn’t risk getting shot or eaten in the
line of duty. Bob’s world is dull but safe, and that’s the way it should have
stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.
“Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative
universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in
distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.
“Only one thing is certain: it will take more than
control-alt-delete to sort this mess out…”
Corwyn Allen continues The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, January 18th at 7:00pm: More from THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES
Join Corwyn Allen as he continues in The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, January 11th at 7 pm: More from THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES ~ Part 1
The Laundry Files is a Lovecraftian series of novels by Charles
Stross. They mix the genres of spy thriller, science fiction, and Lovecraftian
horror. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob
Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T.
consultant turned field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the British
government agency "the Laundry", which deals with occult threats. In
this world, computers and mathematical equations are just as useful, and
perhaps more potent, than classic spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for
influencing unseen ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These
occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks
to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also
elements of dry humor and satirisation of bureaucracy.
While the stories are partially inspired by the Cthulhu
mythos universe created by H. P. Lovecraft and others, they are not set in
Lovecraft's universe. Stross also decides that in a world where
"magic" works, surely the greatest magicians would be scientists who
closely study the phenomena; thus his work is replete with a secret history of
how various acclaimed researchers of the past also dabbled or stumbled upon
occult uses of their work.
Join Corwyn Allen as he continues in The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
WEDNESDAY, January 4th at 7 PM: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE ~ Part 1
Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn’t risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob’s world is dull but safe, and that’s the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.
Now, Bob Howard is up to his neck in spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping Nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world.
Only one thing is certain: it will take more than control-alt-delete to sort this mess out…
Join Corwyn Allen as he delves in The Atrocity Archives, the first volume of the Laundry Files, by Charles Stross. Live in voice.
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