{"id":22252,"date":"2013-09-24T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22252"},"modified":"2014-05-20T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:46:36","slug":"a-new-laundry-story-by-charles-stross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/a-new-laundry-story-by-charles-stross\/","title":{"rendered":"A new &#8220;Laundry&#8221; story by Charles Stross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Stross writes many things, but what first alerted me to his writing was <em>The Atrocity Archives<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2013\/09\/equoid\" target=\"_blank\">TOR.com<\/a> has a new story called &#8220;Equoid&#8221; online for your reading pleasure:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Charles Stross\u2019s \u201cEquoid\u201d is a new story in his ongoing \u201cLaundry\u201d series of Lovecraftian secret-agent bureaucratic dark comedies, which has now grown to encompass four novels and several works of short fiction. \u201cThe Laundry\u201d is the code name for the secret British governmental agency whose remit is to guard the realm from occult threats from beyond spacetime. Entailing mastery of grimoires and also of various computer operating systems, the work is often nose-bleedingly tedious. As the front-cover copy line for Ace\u2019s edition of <strong>The Atrocity Archives<\/strong> noted, \u201cSaving the world is Bob Howard\u2019s job. There are a surprising number of meetings involved.\u201d Previous \u201cLaundry\u201d stories on Tor.com are \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2008\/07\/down-on-the-farm\" target=\"_blank\">Down on the Farm<\/a>\u201d and the Hugo Award finalist \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2009\/12\/overtime\" target=\"_blank\">Overtime<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like some other stories published on Tor.com, \u201cEquoid\u201d contains scenes and situations some readers will find upsetting and\/or repellent. [\u2014The Editors]<\/p>\n<p>This novella was acquired and edited for Tor.com by senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Stross writes many things, but what first alerted me to his writing was The Atrocity Archives. TOR.com has a new story called &#8220;Equoid&#8221; online for your reading pleasure: Charles Stross\u2019s \u201cEquoid\u201d is a new story in his ongoing \u201cLaundry\u201d series of Lovecraftian secret-agent bureaucratic dark comedies, which has now grown to encompass four novels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,8,57,28],"tags":[702,970,85],"class_list":["post-22252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-humour","category-media","tag-nsfw","tag-occult","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22253,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252\/revisions\/22253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}