The Laundry Files series by British author Charles Stross brilliantly mashes up the cosmic dread of the Cthulhu Mythos with the mundane absurdity of government bureaucracy.
No new The Laundry RPG for years
Cubicle 7 explained to The Laundry RPG fans at a seminar held at UK Games Expo the additional complication Chaosium.
Competition: Let me experience The Rapture of the Nerds!
Today has had a focus on The Rapture of the Nerds. Geek Native has interviewed authors Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross and even published review. There’s even a competition from publishers Titan Books. To be in with a chance of winning a SIGNED copy of Rapture of the Nerds tweet the fictions piece of technology […]
Rapture of the Nerds review: clever but weird
I came to Rapture of the Nerds not having read any Cory Doctorow outside his excellent articles on protecting the freedom of the internet and having read plenty of Charles Stross’ books but favouring the battle against ancient godlike beings beyond time and space from the Laundry Files. Rapture of the Nerds is a transhuman […]
Exploring Techno-optimism, not watching Doctor Who and the Rapture of the Nerds with Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
Two big name authors in one interview? Geek Native landed a big one… perhaps. We’ll just have to make sure we can loop in good RPG chat, the sci-fi agenda as well as reflect on the pair’s Rapture of the Nerds. Cory Doctorow, a digital thought leader, is well known enough to feature on XKCD […]
The Fuller Memorandum review
The Fuller Memorandum is the third book in Charles Stross’s Laundry Files series. I don’t know when the series became known as the Laundry Files, but as our hero works for the Laundry and I sometimes describe the series as the X-Files meets Lovecraft I guess the “Files” extra works. Of course, that description is […]
The Laundry Files RPG announced – the secret service versus alien gods
British based Cubicle 7 Entertainment has announced an RPG based on author Charles Stross’ The Laundry Files series. The Laundry Files started with The Atrocity Archives, continued with the The Jennifer Morgue and The Fuller Memorandum is expected out this year. In the series the Laundry, a branch of the British secret service, battle to […]
