The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7)

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Alex Schwartz had a promising future until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed on pain of death to join the Laundry, Britain s only counter occult secret agency.His first assignment is in Leeds his old hometown The thought of telling his parents that he s lost his old job, let alone them finding out about his condition , is causing Alex anxiety than learning how to live as a vampire secret agent preparing to confront multiple apocalypses.His only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a student appearing in the local Goth Festival, who flirts with him despite his awkward personality and massive amounts of sunblock.But Cassie has secrets of her own secrets that make Alex s night life seem positively normal. New Read Books The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7) by Charles Stross – kino-fada.fr I m always looking forward to the Laundry Files novels, now, and with good reason These tales always breathe fresh life into old story concepts.Mix a bunch of nightmare bureaucracy into a mass of Cthulhu Spy Fiction and add a memBrain of multiverses, massive geek humor, Pinky and Brains, and a truly clever take on vampirism magus, but in this one, let s mix in a younger protagonist, the redoubtable 24 year old vampire math geek, Alex, and pretty spearhead of a nearly decimated alien invasion fo I m always looking forward to the Laundry Files novels, now, and with good reason These tales always breathe fresh life into old story concepts.Mix a bunch of nightmare bureaucracy into a mass of Cthulhu Spy Fiction and add a memBrain of multiverses, massive geek humor, Pinky and Brains, and a truly clever take on vampirism magus, but in this one, let s mix in a younger protagonist, the redoubtable 24 year old vampire math geek, Alex, and pretty spearhead of a nearly decimated alien invasion force who happen to be running for their lives from the Elder Gods, all of whom are willing to go to war with innocents for their ultimate survival with England an the rest of humanity, please read, and be a woman who just happens to be up in line for the rulership of the entire alien Host of Air and Darkness, full of eldritch magic and might.Is Alex out of his league CA...The Laundry Files are that rarity in long running series they re getting better as they go along.This one has another new protagonist in the young PhD and newly infected vampire Alex Schwartz who was introduced in the excellent The Rhesus Chart a couple of books ago Frankly, that s a brilliant move While Alex s condition is horrific, his distress at what it takes to keep himself alive makes him an inherently likeable character whose youth and relative inexperience with the Laundry injects a m The Laundry Files are that rarity in long running series they re getting better as they go along.This one has another new protagonist in the young PhD and newly infected vampire Alex Schwartz who was introduced in the excellent The Rhesus Chart a couple of books ago Frankly, that s a brilliant move While Alex s condition is horrific, his distress at what it takes to keep himself alive makes him an inherently likeable character whose youth and relative inexperience with the Laundry injects a muchhopeful element into this long running series Bob and Mo, wonderful as they are, have had so much happen to them and are high enough up in the organization, that any atmosphere beyond despair for them just doesn t feel very realistic.Alex has been assigned to his hometown of Leeds just in time for the city to b...Readers who are curious about Stross s Laundry Files and are daunted by the idea of starting at the beginning could actually begin with this latest book Though it doesn t feature his terrific narrator Bob, or hisproblematical wife Mo, this might be a good thing for a new reader, as Alex newly succumbed to PHANG disease makes a delightful POV character.Through the hapless Alex, who is about as far from the usual vampire as you can possibly get, the reader will get a fast introduction to Readers who are curious about Stross s Laundry Files and are daunted by the idea of starting at the beginning could actually begin with this latest book Though it doesn t feature his terrific narrator Bob, or hisproblematical wife Mo, this might be a good thing for a new reader, as Alex newly su...Danger is looming, and it threatens to be A fate four point two degrees worse than death When Alex Schwartz took a lucrative job developing high frequency trading algorithms, he had no idea how literal his transformation into a bloodsucking vampire was going to be In the world that Stross creates, higher mathematics open a gateway to Other Dimensions haunted by Lovecraftian beasties, including the V symbiotes that invaded Alex s brain and gave him PHANG Syndrome Person of Hemophagic Autocomb Danger is looming, and it threatens to be A fate four point two degrees worse than death When Alex Schwartz took a lucrative job developing high frequency trading algorithms, he had no idea how literal his transformation into a bloodsucking vampire was going to be In the world that Stross creates, higher mathematics open a gateway to Other Dimensions haunted by Lovecraftian beasties, including the V symbiotes that invaded Alex s brain and gave him PHANG Syndrome Person of Hemophagic Autocombusting Nocturnal Glamour , which, sadly, isn t yet covered by the Equality Act Acclimatizing to his new job in the Laundry, the super secret magical equivalent to MI5, is never easy, but Alex entered the trade at a particularly...Very weak start, very strong middle, reasonably strong end.The GoodStross knows how to create an alien species He is good at it, at making them convincingly alien and weird and yet operate both within the limits of our understanding and the constraints of the setting The xenofictional aspects are some of th...The first part of The Nightmare Stacks is vintage Laundry series, reminding us who Alex is, and also re introducing a number of cast members from earlier novels including Pinky and the Brain The new character of the Dungeon Master is not particularly well introduced so I wondered if I have forgotten him from a previous novel, but it seems not The middle section dealing with Alex in Leeds and the developing situation builds momentum towards the finale, but the narrative written in various flash The first part of The Nightmare Stacks is vintage Laundry series, reminding us who Alex is, and also re introducing a number of cast members from earlier novels including Pinky and the Brain The new character of the Dungeon Master is not particularly well introduced so I wondered if I have forgotten him from a previous novel, but it seems not The middle section dealing with Alex in Leeds and the developing situation builds momentum towards the finale, but the narrative written in various flash backs and flash forwards gives the reader an impending sense of doom which I always find impinges on any sense of...My favorite of the Laundry Files thus far and an ending that knocks it out of the park Even better you can actually start reading here You ll miss some of the visceral terror as events spiral so much further out of control than we ve seen so far in the series, but ...On par with the rest of the series, though not a favourite No Bob Howard, no Mo O Brian and a good thing, too, since they d be much too powerful by now I found it somewhat short and the ending a smidge abrupt, though.The latest in Stross Lovecraftian horror spy thriller bureaucracy com Laundry Files series again gives us a new point of view character, this time vampire and former banker Alex Schwartz, to whom I instantly warmed simply because he s another Alex S But that s only one of the reasons I enjoyed it considerablythan its rather wonky predecessor, The Annihilation Score And to say anythan that gets us into spoiler territory, but there are degrees of spoilers, aren t there So, to give The latest in Stross Lovecraftian horror spy thriller bureaucracy com Laundry Files series again gives us a new point of view character, this time vampire and...Not my favorite Laundry Files entry I understand why Mr Stross decided to veer away from Bob Characters are harder to write and less interesting to read when they level up as dramatically as Bob has But Alex was not the best character to switch to, and this story was not a great showcase for him.Because, in the en...

The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7)
  • English
  • 26 November 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 352 pages
  • 0356505340
  • Charles Stross
  • The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7)