Charles Stross

"Bob Howard es un ""geek"" reclutado a su pesar para trabajar en la Lavandería, una agencia ultrasecreta del gobierno británico encargada de proteger nuestro mundo de la amenaza de todo tipo de seres de pesadilla. Mientras sus compañeros se juegan la vida a diario enfrentandose a horrores innombrables en un universo en el que la demonologia es una rama de la matematica aplicada, Bob se dedica al mantenimiento de los sistemas informaticos. Hasta que un dia consigue un ascenso.En su nuevo puesto, ademas de lidiar con interminables reuniones de trabajo y montones de papeleo, Bob tendra que tratar con nazis interdimensionales, terroristas, damiselas en apuros, universos alternativos, antiguos horrores lovecraftianos y el fin del mundo."

His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from spreading ideas around, putting people in touch with one another and leaving a spray of technologies in his wake. He lives at the cutting edge of intelligence amplification technology, but even Manfred can take on too much. And when his pet robot cat picks up some interesting information from the SETI data, his world - and the world of his descendants - is turned on its head.

From the Hugo Award-winning author of "The Rhesus Chart" comes another supernatural case from The Laundry Files... Dominique O Brien her friends call her Mo lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they re boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthine secret circles of Her Majesty s Government, they re operatives working for the nation s occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity. Unfortunately, one of those supernatural threats has come between Mo and Bob. An antique violin, an Erich Zahn original, made of white human bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues and her husband. And despite Mo s proficiency as a world-class violinist, it cannot be controlled "

Dark State is the second book in a thrilling series - set in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series. This book follows Empire Games. In the near future, one America is experiencing its first technological revolution - whilst in a parallel world, the United States is a hi-tech police state. But both timelines are poised for conflict. Miriam Burgeson's America is heading for civil war. However, a high profile defection might avert this crisis, if only Miriam and her agents can arrange it in time. And Rita Douglas, rival US spy, arrives during this turmoil. Rita's world is rocked when she realizes Miriam is her birth mother, changing her own mission irrevocably. Then her United States discovers yet another parallel earth, and the remains of an advanced society. Something destroyed that civilization, Rita's people are about to rouse it - and two worlds will face the consequences.

En ce début de XXIe siècle, être courtier en idées de technologies de pointe n’est pas sans risque. L’idéaliste Manfred Macx en sait quelque chose : depuis qu’il milite pour l’open-source et pour les

En ce début de XXIe siècle, être courtier en idées de technologies de pointe n’est pas sans risque. L’idéaliste Manfred Macx en sait quelque chose : depuis qu’il milite pour l’open-source et pour les

Del rango de William Gibson, Neal Stephenson y Bruce Sterling (Library Journal) con novelas tan visionarias como Cielo de Singularidad ("una lectura con un poder de entretenimiento fuera de lo común", The Washington Post Book World), Iron Sunrise ("[un] pasatiempo intelectual excelente de tipo hipercinetico", Locus), y Accelerando ("un thriller de Hollywood con un corazon ciberpunk", Entertainment Weekly), Charles Stross sigue trazando el futuro de la humanidad con una imaginacion ilimitada... Cuando Robin se despierta en una clinica, habiendo perdido la mayor parte de la memoria, no tarda mucho en descubrir que hay alguien que esta intentando matarlo. Estamos en el siglo XXVII, cuando el viaje interestelar se hace por puertas de teletransporte y las guerras se llevan a cabo mediante gusanos de red que censuran la personalidad de los refugiados, tomando como punto de mira a los historiadores. La guerra civil ha terminado, y Robin ha sido desmovilizado, pero alguien quiere terminar con el por algo que su identidad anterior sabia. Intentando huir de un perseguidor inhumano y buscando un sitio donde esconderse, se presenta voluntario para participar en una sociedad experimental -la Prision-, construida con el objetivo de recrear una cultura preacelerada. A cada participante se le asigna una identidad anonima: parece el escondrijo ideal para un posthumano a la fuga. Pero se trata de un ambiente del que no hay modo de escapar, y Robin tendra que someterse a un cambio aun mas radical, quedando a merced de su propia psique desequilibrada...

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she's in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . .Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn't again get entangled with Eve Starkey's bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she's pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results...

Welcome to Britain under the New Management! The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he's dead. But though she's now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she's not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge - and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions. Then an emissary of the Prime Minister arrives with an offer that she absolutely can't . . . well, you know.This is the final novel in the Laundry Files spin-off trilogy that began with Dead Lies Dreaming and continued with Quantum of Nightmares.'Grim, hilarious, inventive - make the video game now please' Tamsyn Muir

Una estrella G2 no explota sin más, al menos sin interferencias externas, así que los supervivientes del planeta Moscú, aniquilado en un suceso así, han lanzado un contraataque contra el responsable mas probable: el sistema vecino de Nueva Dresde. Pero Nueva Dresde no es la responsable, y mientras los letales misiles se aproximan a su objetivo, a Rachel Mansour, representante de los intereses de la Vieja Tierra, se le encomienda la mision de averiguar quien ha sido. Frente a ella se encuentra un enemigo desconocido, ademas de inimaginable, y en juego esta no solo el destino de Nueva Dresde, sino tambien el orden del universo entero. Y la unica persona que conoce la identidad de ese enemigo es una descreida adolescente que no tiene ni la menor idea de lo que esta pasando...

Es el siglo veinticinco. La humanidad ha sido revolucionada por el contacto con el Eschaton, una casi omnipotente inteligencia artificial capaz de controlar los viajes en el tiempo. Mientras, en la Nueva Republica, toda la tecnologia avanzada excepto la necesaria para el viaje interestelar ha sido prohibida. Pero el decadente mundo de Rochald, una colonia de la Nueva Republica, ha sido revolucionado por la influencia de una misteriosa inteligencia alienigena, El Festival, aparentemente dispuesta a concederles cualquier cosa imaginable a cambio de muy poco. La Nueva Republica reacciona enviando su flota a traves del tiempo para coger al Festival por sorpresa. El ingeniero espacial Martin Springfield y la diplomatica de las Naciones Unidas Rachel Mansour abandonan la Tierra y se dirigen al mundo capital de la Nueva Republica, con la mision de evitar la crisis o sabotear la flota de guerra de la Nueva Republica a toda costa. Charles Stross es uno de los maximos exponentes en la actualidad de la ciencia ficcion del tercer milenio y un destacado integrante de la nueva ola de autores influidos por la revolucion de la red.

Una estrella G2 no explota sin más, así que los supervivientes del planeta Moscú, aniquilado en un suceso así, han lanzado un contraataque contra el responsable más probable: el sistema vecino de Nueva Dresde.Pero Nueva Dresde no es la responsable, y mientras los misiles se aproximan a su objetivo, a Rachel Mansour, representante de los intereses de la Vieja Tierra, se le encomienda la mision de averiguar quien ha sido. Frente a ella se encuentra un enemigo desconocido, y en juego esta no solo el destino de Nueva Dresde, sino tambien el orden del universo entero. Y la unica persona que conoce la identidad de ese enemigo es una descreida adolescente que no tiene ni la menor idea de lo que esta pasando....

Its a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now shes in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . .Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldnt again get entangled with Eve Starkeys bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now shes pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results...For all of Strosss genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books Ive ever readTamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth

A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets...Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon.Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution North America. She must accelerate her world''s technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them to hell. After all, they''ve done it before. Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies, as a cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side?Empire Games is the first book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross'' Merchant Princes series.

An occult assassin, an elderly royal and a living god face off in The Regicide Report, the thrilling final novel in Charles Stross epic, Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series. When the Elder God recently installed as Prime Minister identifies the monarchy as a threat to his growing power, Bob Howard and Mo OBrien - recently of the supernatural espionage service known as the Laundry Files - are reluctantly pressed into service.Fighting vampirism, scheming American agents and their own better instincts, Bob and Mo will join their allies for the very last time. God save the Queen because someone has to.

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 growing up in middle England. But his love of D&D caused him to fall afoul of the Laundry, a government agency tasked with suppressing supernatural threats. It turns out that sometimes ninth level wizard spells drawn on the back of your maths textbook can look suspiciously like actual magic...Decades later, Derek is a long-term inmate at Camp Sunshine, a centre for deprogramming captured cultists. But Derek finally has reason to escape, and an escape plan to out into action: he wants to attend his first gaming convention. While Dereks D&D games were fictional, a game at the con really is a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world, and its up to Derek and his players to stop them.The fate of the world may depend on the contents of Dereks dice bag.The Laundry Files series follows an agency of British spies who deal with supernatural threats; they also have to deal with chronic underfunding, government ministers, rival agencies and worst of all, each other. Think Slow Horses crossed with the monsters from Stranger Things, this series is funny, nerdy, and a cult classic.***Publishing ahead of the final Laundry Files novel (The Regicide Report), this new collection includes the never before published Laundry Files novel A Conventional Boy - inspired by the 1980s Satanic Panic - and two other short stories in this joyous celebration of all things Laundry Files.***In this collection:*A CONVENTIONAL BOY (53.3k words)*DOWN ON THE FARM (12.7k words)*OVERTIME (8.7k words)also includes exclusive afterword from Charles Stross

LONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as the Laundry. When occult powers threaten the realm, theyll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.Theres one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and thats vampires. Mention them to a seasoned agent and youll be laughed out of the room.But when a small team of investment bankers at one of Canary Wharfs most distinguished financial institutions discovers an arcane algorithm that leaves them fearing daylight and craving O positive, someone doesnt want the Laundry to know. And Bob gets caught right in the middle.