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The Jennifer Morgue

By Charles Stross

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Bob Howard is a computer übergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent manipulation of complex mathematical equations: in other words, magic. In 1975, the CIA used Howard Hughes's Glomar Explorer in a bungled Continue

Bob Howard is a computer übergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent manipulation of complex mathematical equations: in other words, magic. In 1975, the CIA used Howard Hughes's Glomar Explorer in a bungled attempt to raise a sunken Soviet submarine in order to access the Jennifer Morgue, an occult device that allows communication with the dead. Now a ruthless billionaire intends to try again, even if by doing so he awakens the Great Old Ones, who thwarted the earlier expedition. It's up to Bob and a collection of British eccentrics even Monty Python would consider odd to stop the bad guy and save the world, while getting receipts for all expenditures or else face the most dreaded menace of all: the Laundry's own auditors.

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    Stross mi piace. Magari non tantissimo, ma mi piace. Qui c'e' una storia alla James Bond, ma il protagonista non potrebbe essere piu' diverso: e' un geek. Computer, tecnologia e cose affini. Ma in piu' e' un antinegromante qualificato, e lavora per l'agenzia segreta di Sua Maesta' ('La Lavand ... (continue)

    Stross mi piace. Magari non tantissimo, ma mi piace. Qui c'e' una storia alla James Bond, ma il protagonista non potrebbe essere piu' diverso: e' un geek. Computer, tecnologia e cose affini. Ma in piu' e' un antinegromante qualificato, e lavora per l'agenzia segreta di Sua Maesta' ('La Lavanderia') responsabile per la protezione del Regno contro la magia, gli incantamenti ed affini. Ma non e' Potter - per niente. La magia e' matematica e tecnologia, perfettamente fuse nella storia. I cattivi fanno tecno-magia nera, e il nostro eroe, in missione ai Caraibi, si trova gemellato mentalmente con un'agente rivale, anfibia, la quale veste glamour No. 3...
    Dire di piu' sarebbe uno spoiler. Niente di speciale, ma si fa leggere.

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  • eBook 432 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0748124144
  • ISBN-13: 9780748124145
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Pub date: Nov 04, 2010
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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