• Season of Skulls

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 24 22:05:22 2024
    Season of Skulls by Charles Stross
    Found at the SFPL-Main as of Wednesday August21
    I have completed reading a new Charles Stross novel
    and it really holds your attention. This is set in the world
    and in adjacent irreality where the Black Pharaoh has taken
    control of the UK and sidetracked the Personnel of the Laundry
    to do clean up of sorcerers who resist his hellish reign.
    No Laundry Files personnel on stage but hungry musical instruments are in evidence. Wife of Rupert Bigge, Baron of Skaro
    and initiate of the Mute Poet (a Mexican deity) who like the Black
    Pharaoh loves the power that comes from human sacrifice, is the main
    character attempting to track her insane husband on the dream roads.
    She is his PA and runs his immense business for him but suffers under
    multiple geasa, forced to his will and nastily trapped into a marriage
    where he can force her will to his ends even more. Both she and
    hubbie are powerful sorcerers. He is attempting to get the Mute
    Poet to be triumphant in a contest with the Black Pharaoh by founding
    and directing cults of the Mute Singer in the past.
    This was very amusing and Stross has the knack for
    drawing you into his work.
    This is set in the same Universe as the Laundry Files
    where magic is best worked by computer as humans suffer
    deleterious parasitism when they do magic.

    bliss

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 24 22:13:53 2024
    Hi Odd,

        "Season of Skulls" by Charles Stross

    Found at the SFPL-Main as of Wednesday .August 21, 2024.

    I have completed reading this new Charles Stross novel
    and it really holds your attention. This is set in the world
    and in adjacent irreality where the Black Pharaoh has taken
    control of the UK and sidetracked the Personnel of the Laundry
    to do clean up of sorcerers who resist his hellish reign.

        No Laundry Files personnel on stage but hungry musical

    instruments are in evidence. Wife of Rupert Bigge, Baron of Skaro

    and initiate of the Mute Poet (a Mexican deity) who like the Black

    Pharaoh loves the power that comes from human sacrifice, is the

    main character attempting to track her insane husband on the

    dream roads.

        She is his PA and runs his immense business for him but suffers

    under multiple geasa, forced to his will and nastily trapped into a

    marriage where he can force her will to his ends even more.

    Both she and hubby Rupurt are powerful sorcerers. He is attempting to

     get the Mute Poet to be triumphant in a contest with the Black Pharaoh

    by founding and directing cults of the Mute Singer in the past.

    This was very amusing and Stross has the knack for

    drawing you into his work.

    This is the closest I think i remember seeing to a truely happy

    ending in a story connected to the Laundry files and susequent

    events.

    This is set in the same Universe as the Laundry Files

    where magic is best worked by computer as humans suffer

    deleterious parasitism when they do magic.  And it is not

    good for the computer either


                Bobbie

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