Charles Stross, Charles Stross: Season of Skulls (2023, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
English language
Published Feb. 11, 2023 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.
An excellent entry in the Laundry Files series. The tone and genre are a bit different for Charles Stross as a classic Romance, but there is still plenty of eldritch horror to go around.
This is Eve Starkey's story, as she struggles to beat Rupert at his own dream roads game.
Eve gets to show her brains and brawn as she navigates the hazards of time travel and narrative causality with hardly any backup.
I wish there was more space for my favorite bunch of misfits, The Lost Boys.
Much of the novel is built around nostalgia for The Prisoner TV series.
I'm 48 and even for me The Prisoner is too old to really be nostalgia. I saw some of it when I was in grammar school, and hardly knew any English. I remember a man running away from a ball, that he was number 6, and the meme,"I'm a man, I'm not a number".
At my Kibbutz we have a 3 digit number that we use like a credit card number to have services charged to our account. So sometimes, when asked …
This is Eve Starkey's story, as she struggles to beat Rupert at his own dream roads game.
Eve gets to show her brains and brawn as she navigates the hazards of time travel and narrative causality with hardly any backup.
I wish there was more space for my favorite bunch of misfits, The Lost Boys.
Much of the novel is built around nostalgia for The Prisoner TV series.
I'm 48 and even for me The Prisoner is too old to really be nostalgia. I saw some of it when I was in grammar school, and hardly knew any English. I remember a man running away from a ball, that he was number 6, and the meme,"I'm a man, I'm not a number".
At my Kibbutz we have a 3 digit number that we use like a credit card number to have services charged to our account. So sometimes, when asked for our number at the grocery shop, we used to jokingly say "I’m a man, I'm not a number".
Perhaps if I was English the amount of time spent on hashing out every detail of that village would have had more meaning for me.
3.5 Stars
