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No new The Laundry RPG for years

June 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Cubicle 7 explained to The Laundry RPG fans at a seminar held at UK Games Expo the additional complication Chaosium.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Charles Stross, cthulhu, cubicle 7, the laundry files, The Laundry RPG, uk games expo

Competition: Let me experience The Rapture of the Nerds!

April 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Charles Stross, competitions, Cory Doctorow, rapture of the nerds, Titan Books

Rapture of the Nerds review: clever but weird

April 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Charles Stross, comedy, Cory Doctorow, rapture of the nerds, reviews, sci-fi

Exploring Techno-optimism, not watching Doctor Who and the Rapture of the Nerds with Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross

April 25, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, rapture of the nerds, The Laundry RPG, Titan Books

The Fuller Memorandum review

July 14, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Bob Howard, Charles Stross, cthulhu, cubicle 7, Fuller Memorandum, Jennifer Morgue, Laundry Files, lovecraft

The Laundry Files RPG announced – the secret service versus alien gods

March 12, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Charles Stross, cubicle 7, rpg, The Laundry RPG

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