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Charles Stross
In A Conventional Boy, the fate of the world will depend on a roll of the dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.
In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another teenage nerd…
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In this new Laundry Files adventure the fate of the world will literally depend on the roll of dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.
In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another…
A new adventure begins in the bestselling world of the Laundry Files: in a nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream . . .
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A collection of cutting edge SF stories and novellas from one of science fiction’s brightest new stars.
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The second volume of The Merchant Princes series - Charles Stross’s ambitious thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worlds.
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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, code named Jennifer Morgue, in this fast-paced spy…
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Computational demonologist Bob Howard is catching up on his filing in the Laundry archives when a top secret dossier known as the Fuller Memorandum vanishes–along with his boss, who is…
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After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.
In the 27th century, interstellar travel is by teleport gates, and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees’ personalities. On the run from an unknown enemy, the memory-less…
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn’s Children delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction in this collection.
Features a collection of short stories such as Antibodies , Bear Trap , Extracts from the Club Diary , A Colder War , TOAST: A con report , A Boy…
The saga of the Merchant Princes continues in this spellbinding third volume
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. The investigation seems pointless, but she soon realizes that the virtual world…
Stross’s Merchant Princes series reaches a spectacular climax in this sixth volume. Praised by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman as great fun, this is state-of-the-art, cutting-edge science fiction at its best.
In this entry in the series that includes The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, and The Clan Corporate, Miriam Beckstein, a young business journalist in Boston, has escaped to yet…
A high-tech, inter-dimensional espionage thriller set in the world of the Merchant Princes series.
When Ray SchillerNan American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously healNbecomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, the beautiful and entirely unpredictable Persephone infiltrates his ministry to uncover the…
Freya Nakamichi-47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package…
Now in paperback–a truly visionary first novel from the most talked-about new voice in science fiction. In the 21st century, faster-than-light travel is perfected and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial…
In this follow-up to his critically acclaimed Singularity Sky, Stross tells the story of Wednesday Shadowmist, a sullen teenager who is humanity’s only hope of stopping interstellar war.
Neptune’s Brood is a brand new space opera from science fiction legend Charles Stross. Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Hugo Award for Best…
James Bond meets H. P. Lovecraft in the latest occult thriller from Hugo Award winner Charles Stross, in a series where British spies take on the supernatural
Two parallel versions of America are trapped in a cold war - and it’s heating up fast. This is the extraordinary finale to Charles Stross’s alternative-history trilogy.
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…
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Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross’s Lovecraftian Laundry Files series.
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain’s avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch…
Bob Howard, a newly appointed junior manager of an organization tasked with defending England from supernatural threats, must stop an outbreak of vampirism at a merchant bank.
Mo’s latest assignment is to assist the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks…
The third and fourth instalments of The Merchant Princes series - Charles Stross’s ambitious thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worlds.
The fifth Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross, and a jumping-on point for readers new to the series, The Rhesus Chart sees hacker and supernatural spy Bob Howard take on…
A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files: in a nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty…
Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems, Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet round out this offbeat…
James Bond meets H. P. Lovecraft in the ninth Laundry Files novel from Hugo Award winner Charles Stross, in a series where British spies take on the supernatural
When timelines collide, one reluctant spy will change the stakes in this first book in the Empire Games series.
Originally published separately as The family trade and The hidden family.
Originally published separatley as The clan corporate and The merchants’ war.
Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, the Hugo Award-winning author of Glasshouse delivers a novel destined to change the genre.
James Bond meets H. P. Lovecraft in the ninth Laundry Files novel from Hugo Award winner Charles Stross, in a series where British spies take on the supernatural. Now in…
A new adventure begins in the bestselling world of the Laundry Files: a nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream …
A major SF debut from a British writer who will stand alongside Banks, Hamilton and Reynolds.
Iron Sunrise is a suspenseful future tale of intergalactic espionage and planetary destruction.
GLASSHOUSE is a far-future helter-skelter ride through an experimental archaeology project gone horribly wrong.
A cutting edge space opera from the Hugo Award-winning author of Singularity Sky.
