Charles Stross

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Accelerando

Charles Stross
- Éditions Piranha
- INCERTAIN FUTUR
- 4 Juin 2015
- 9782371191174
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 droits civiques de tout humain numérisé ou des non-humains, il est harcelé par un agent du fisc - son ex-petite amie - et par la Mafiya. Des années plus tard, sa fille Amber et quelques amis font route, à bord d'un micro-vaisseau, vers une naine brune, lieu d'un signal extraterrestre. Premier contact ou piège alien ?
Dans un Système solaire méconnaissable, Sirhan, le fils qu'Amber n'a jamais connu, convoque le clan Macx sur Saturne alors que le débat politique entre les humains et les posthumains fait rage. L'humanité est-elle en danger ? Une troisième voie est-elle possible ? Entre ressentiments et non-dits, il est temps que chacun s'explique. Et si Aineko, le cyber-chat des Macx, tirait les ficelles ? Sur fond d'économie et démocratie 2.0, Accelerando est un roman sur l'avenir de notre civilisation et la difficulté des relations familiales face à l'accélération technologique. Se situant entre Gibson et Egan, Charles Stross interroge le posthumanisme avec intelligence et humour.
Prix Locus du meilleur roman de science-fiction 2006.
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Rule 34

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 7 Juillet 2011
- 9780748116355
DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile.
Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as you've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next.
The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. But that's OK, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off potential recruits?
So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out.
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THE NIGHTMARE STACKS

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 23 Juin 2016
- 9780356505350
Alex Schwartz had a great job and a promising future - until he caught an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret intelligence agency.
His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. But the thought of telling his parents he's lost his job, let alone their discovering his 'condition', is causing Alex almost as much anxiety as his new lifestyle of supernatural espionage.
His only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a student from the local Goth Festival who flirts with him despite his fear of sunlight (and girls). But Cassie has secrets of her own - secrets that make Alex's night life seem positively normal . . .
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.
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Le cycle de la laverie - equoide - et autres horreurs

Charles Stross
- 500 Nuances de Geek
- 1 Janvier 2018
- 9791090692503
On vous a menti sur toute l'histoire contemporaine.
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les nazis ont failli l'emporter grâce à leurs sacrifices humains et leurs invocations des puissances d'outre espace qui rôdent. L'informaticien Bob Howard (clin d'oeil à devinez qui) a été engagé de force au Bureau des Atrocités, dit aussi la Laverie Centrale, parce qu'il a eu le malheur d'explorer des archives qui auraient dû être effacées et d'y apprendre la thaumaturgie mathématique. Sans compter qu'au passage, il a bien failli redessiner sa ville natale de Wolverhampton. Bref, La Laverie, le plus secret des services secrets britanniques, veille à ce que certains théorèmes dont l'utilisation pourrait ouvrir l'accès sur d'autres univers où guettent les horreurs tentaculaires ne soient jamais redécouverts. Ce qui n'exclut pas la bureaucratie la plus tatillonne. Et Howard est l'un de ses agents qualifiés action.

Issu d'un croisement improbable entre les classiques de l'espionnage, les horreurs tentaculaires de HP. Lovecraft et la culture geek, ce cycle réussit à allier humour British et effroi en renouvelant le genre de l'horreur cosmique, exploit récompensé par plusieurs prix Hugo. Et voici l'univers de retour en français après plus de 10 ans, et en force, avec romans, Jeu de rôle et beau livre....

Ce recueil contient l'ensemble des nouvelles concernant La Laverie, dont le roman court, Prix Hugo 2014, "Équoide". Une nouvelle créature du mythe dont vous nous direz des nouvelles Elle contient aussi la nouvelle "Une guerre encore plus froide", version alternative de l'univers de La Laverie.
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Le memorandum fuller (tome 3)

Charles Stross
- 500 Nuances de Geek
- 1 Janvier 2018
- 9791090692510
On vous a menti sur toute l'histoire contemporaine.
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les nazis ont failli l'emporter grâce à leurs sacrifices humains et leurs invocations des puissances d'outre espace qui rôdent. L'informaticien Bob Howard (clin d'oeil à devinez qui) a été engagé de force au Bureau des Atrocités, dit aussi la Laverie Centrale, parce qu'il a eu le malheur d'explorer des archives qui auraient dû être effacées et d'y apprendre la thaumaturgie mathématique. Sans compter qu'au passage, il a bien failli redessiner sa ville natale de Wolverhampton. Bref, La Laverie, le plus secret des services secrets britanniques, veille à ce que certains théorèmes dont l'utilisation pourrait ouvrir l'accès sur d'autres univers où guettent les horreurs tentaculaires ne soient jamais redécouverts. Ce qui n'exclut pas la bureaucratie la plus tatillonne. Et Howard est l'un de ses agents qualifiés action.

Issu d'un croisement improbable entre les classiques de l'espionnage, les horreurs tentaculaires de HP. Lovecraft et la culture geek, ce cycle réussit à allier humour British et effroi en renouvelant le genre de l'horreur cosmique, exploit récompensé par plusieurs prix Hugo. Et voici l'univers de retour en français après plus de 10 ans, et en force, avec romans, Jeu de rôle et beau livre....Et si Lovecraft n'avait pas seulement imaginé les horreurs non humaines, mais les avait rencontrées dans sa jeunesse ?
Bob Howard découvrira, dans des lettres du Maître de Providence, l'existence d'un dieu obscène qui pourrait bien être le même qui menace de corrompre l'humanité au coeur de la campagne anglaise... Au delà de ce roman court, primé aux Hugos, vous découvrirez comment Bob sauve l'humanité à noël et où vont les agents dont la santé mentale à été réduite à néant. Enfin, dans « Une Guerre encore plus froide » vous découvrirez que l'holocauste nucléaire aurait été un « détail historique » à côté de ce qui aurait pu arriver si la course à l'armement avait inclus l'usage de grands anciens.
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The Rhesus Chart (La Laverie 5, Tome 6)

Charles Stross
- 500 Nuances de Geek
- 1 Janvier 2021
- 9791090692947
Dans Le Rhesus Chart, tome 5 de La Laverie, c'est le thème du vampirisme (après celui de Shubniggurath VS Les licornes, puis de l'entité "Le porteur de cadeaux" alias le père noël) qui prend un coup de jeune, à travers des créatures qui menacent jusqu'à l'organisation secrète de sa Majesté.

On vous a menti sur toute l'histoire contemporaine. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les nazis ont failli l'emporter grâce àleurs sacrifices humains et leurs invocations des puissances d'outre espace quirôdent. L'informaticien Bob Howard (clin d'oeil à devinez qui) a été engagé deforce au Bureau des Atrocités, dit aussi la Laverie Centrale, parce qu'il a eu lemalheur d'explorer des archives qui auraient dû être effacées et d'y apprendrela thaumaturgie mathématique. Sans compter qu'au passage, il a bien failliredessiner sa ville natale de Wolverhampton.Bref,La Laverie, le plus secret des services secrets britanniques, veille à ce quecertains théorèmes dont l'utilisation pourrait ouvrir l'accès sur d'autres univers où guettent les horreurs tentaculaires ne soient jamais redécouverts. Ce qui n'exclut pasla bureaucratie la plus tatillonne. Et Howard est l'un de ses agents qualifiés action. Une serie culte mélant culture geek, thriller d'epsionnage et humour non sense, sur fond d'horreur Lovecraftiennes, de retour en français.
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HALTING STATE

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 4 Septembre 2008
- 9780748100408
It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches the video footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon, and realises that the robbery from an online game company is actually a robbery from an online game.
Just wonderful. Like she has nothing better to do. But online entertainment is big business, and when the bodies of real people start to show up, it's clear that this is anything but a game. For Sue, computer coding expert Jack Reed, and forensic accountant Elaine Barnaby, the walls between the actual and the virtual are about to come crashing down. There is something very dangerous and very real going on at Hayek Associates, and those involved are playing for keeps.
No cheats, no back doors, no extra lives - make a wrong call on this one and it's game over.
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IRON SUNRISE

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 4 Novembre 2010
- 9780748124107
When the planet of New Moscow was brutally destroyed, its few survivors launched a counter-attack against the most likely culprit: the neighbouring system of trade rival New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was.
The one person who does know is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea where she might be hiding this significant information. Time is limited and if Rachel can't resolve this mystery it will mean annihilation of an entire world.
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The Fuller Memorandum

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 1 Juillet 2010
- 9780748116348
Bob Howard is an IT specialist and field agent for the Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's secret service that deals with occult threats.
Overworked and underpaid, Bob is used to his two jobs overflowing from a strict nine to five and, since his wife Mo has a very similar job description, he understands that work will sometimes follow her home, too. But when 'work' involves zombie assassins and minions of a mad god's cult, he realises things are spinning out of control.
When a top-secret dossier goes missing and his boss Angleton is implicated, Bob must contend with suspiciously helpful Russian intelligence operatives and an unscrupulous apocalyptic cult before confronting the decades-old secret that lies at the heart of the Laundry: what is so important about the missing Fuller Memorandum? And why are all the people who know dying . . . ?
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THE RHESUS CHART

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 3 Juillet 2014
- 9781405526012
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, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.
There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires. Mention them to a seasoned agent and you'll be laughed out of the room.
But when a small team of investment bankers at one of Canary Wharf's most distinguished financial institutions discovers an arcane algorithm that leaves them fearing daylight and craving O positive, someone doesn't want the Laundry to know. And Bob gets caught right in the middle.
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The Laundry files : the atrocity archives

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 4 Novembre 2010
- 9780748124138
NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY . . .
Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed.
Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .
This is the first novel in the Laundry Files.
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THE JENNIFER MORGUE - THE LAUNDRY FILES 2

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 4 Novembre 2010
- 9780748124145
SOME AGENTS HAVE ALL THE FUN. OTHERS SAVE THE WORLD.
Bob Howard is an IT expert and occasional field agent for the Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's Secret Service that deals with occult threats.
Dressed (grudgingly) in a tux and sent to the Caribbean, he must infiltrate a millionaire's yacht in order to prevent him from violating a treaty that will bring down the wrath of an ancient underwater race upon humanity's head. Partnered with a gorgeous American agent who's actually a soul-sucking succubus from another dimension, Bob's mission (should he choose to accept it) is to stop the bad guys, avoid getting the girl, and survive - shaken, perhaps, but not stirred.
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The Annihilation Score

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 2 Juillet 2015
- 9780356505336
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER . . .
Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess and deal with the witnesses.
But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'.
If this wasn't bad enough, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists and sending increasingly threatening messages to the police. Who is Freudstein and what is he planning?
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Dead Lies Dreaming

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 27 Octobre 2020
- 9780356513782
In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened.
A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files.
Dead Lies Dreaming presents a nightmarish vision of a Britain sliding unknowingly towards occult cataclysm . . .
'Grim, hilarious, inventive - make the video game now please' Tamsyn Muir
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The Apocalypse Codex

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 9 Juillet 2012
- 9780748130955
Bob Howard used to fix computers for the Laundry - the branch of the British Secret Service that deals with otherworldly threats - but those days are over. He's not only been promoted to active service but actually survived missions against cultists, enemy spies and tentacled horrors from other dimensions. Willingly or not, he's on his way up in this dangerous organisation.
When a televangelist with connections to 10 Downing Street seems able to work miracles, the Laundry takes an interest. But an agency that answers to the Prime Minister can't spy on him themselves, and Bob's shadowy superiors come up with a compromise - they hire 'freelancers', with Bob in charge.
British citizens who discover the occult are either forcibly recruited by the Laundry or disposed of, and Bob's never heard of freelancers before. Officially they don't exist. Anyone who's big and bad enough to remain independent is going to be hard to handle, and Bob's not too sure that the one-week 'people management' course he was sent on in Milton Keynes is going to be enough . . .
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Neptune's Brood

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 2 Juillet 2013
- 9780748130962
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 Novel.
She was looking for her sister. She found Atlantis.
Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing, she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.
In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.
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Glasshouse

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 4 Novembre 2010
- 9780748124114
When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him.
It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the picture because of something his earlier self knew.
On the run from a ruthless pursuer and searching for a place to hide, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse. Constructed to simulate a pre-accelerated culture, participants are assigned anonymized identities: it looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters, and of his own unbalanced psyche . . .
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The Delirium Brief

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 13 Juillet 2017
- 9780356508290
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2018
Bob Howard's career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from the supernatural, has involved brilliant hacking, ancient magic and combat with creatures of pure evil.
Now the Laundry's existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organisation has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a government looking for public services to privatise. There are things in the Laundry's assets that big business would simply love to get its hands on . . .
Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.
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The Labyrinth Index

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 30 Octobre 2018
- 9780356511078
Britain is under New Management. The disbanding of the Laundry - the British espionage agency that deals with supernatural threats, has culminated in the unthinkable - an elder god in residence in 10 Downing Street.
But in true 'the enemy of my enemy' fashion, Mhari Murphy finds herself working with His Excellency Nylarlathotep on foreign policy - there are worse things, it seems, than an elder god in power, and they lie in deepest, darkest America.
A thousand-mile-wide storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the president is nowhere to be found - Mhari must lead a task force of disgraced Laundry personnel into the storm front to discover the truth. But working for an elder god is never easy, and as the stakes rise, Mhari will soon question exactly where her loyalties really lie.
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Wireless

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 2 Juillet 2009
- 9780748111954
It has been said that the natural state of science fiction is the short story. If that is so, you won't find a better exploration of that state than Charles Stross's new collection. Centred around an original and previously unpublished novella, 'Palimpsest', WIRELESS is a showcase of some of the best short SF of the 21st century.
With an introduction from the author and containing hitherto uncollected works such as 'Missile Gap', 'Trunk and Disorderly' and 'Rogue Farm', and some gems previously available only in small press publications, such as 'A Colder War' and 'Antibodies', WIRELESS will illustrate perfectly why award-winning editor and anthologist, Gardner Dozois, once declared:
'Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.
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Singularity sky

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 4 Septembre 2008
- 9780748109173
In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a . It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated.
Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way of life is threatened by the arrival of an alien information plague known as the Festival. As forbidden technologies are literally dropped from the sky, suppressed political factions descend into revolutionary turmoil.
A battle fleet is sent from Earth to destroy the Festival, but Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat Rachel Mansour have been assigned rather different tasks. Their orders are to diffuse the crisis or to sabotage the New Republic's war-fleet, whatever the cost, before the Eschaton takes hostile action on a galactic scale.
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Nouv.
A CONVENTIONAL BOY

Charles Stross
- Orbit UK
- 7 Janvier 2025
- 9780356524634
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 Derek's 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 it's up to Derek and his players to stop them.
The fate of the world may depend on the contents of Derek's 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 just ahead of the final Laundry Files novel (The Regicide Report, summer 2025), 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
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