The Jennifer Morgue

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1. jauntywundrkindMay 2024
   Ever since Accelerando blew my young mind, I've been a huge Stross fan. But I put off reading Laundry Files books (Jennifer Morgue being the second) thinking they weren't in genre for me, wouldn't be my thing.

   Wow was I wrong. The spy x demonologist x hacker combo just gives Stross more rope to play around with, and is full of fun eccentricities. A strong Anti-Memetics Division vibe. Would recommend.

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2. qwertyuiop924Sep 2016
   Admittedly, as a fan of The Laundry Files, that's a major problem with the Atrocity Archives, for the first half, anyways. The second half, after Bob and Mo visit the Atrocity Archives themselves, is much better. We meet a variety of Checkov's Guns, several important people, and get a glimpse of the kind of horror that the Laundry Files is all about. The Concrete Jungle, a short story included in the book, is equally absorbing, and sets the scene for all short stories to come, as well as showing us a bit more of Angleton, and giving us introduction to MAGINOT BLUE STARS.

   The second novel, The Jennifer Morgue, is very good, and largely free of the problems you mentioned, but is very different from much of the rest of the series, for reasons which will become obvious when you read it. It's in the third book, The Fuller Memorandum, where the series really hits its stride, and gets going.

   However, the series doesn't mind an offside wink or two every once in a while, like Persephone's parenthesized Enochian, and the way The Scrum talks about its problems.

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3. pavel_lishinSep 2015
   Project Azorian was also featured in Charles Stross's "The Jennifer Morgue", which takes this particular CIA mission and its cover, and wraps it in something supernatural.

   A+ read.

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4. mindcrimeSep 2015
   I enjoyed the heck out of The Jennifer Morgue (like all the other Laundry Files books) but - until now - had no idea any part of it was based on something real. This is rather mind-blowing. Nice job by Mr. Stross, weaving in some interesting real-world stuff into his quite fantastical world.

   Now I'm going to feel the need to go back and re-read the rest of the Laundry books and see if I can find any similar tie-ins.

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5. TeMPOraLFeb 2014
   > Project Azorian

   I first read about it in cstross's novel "The Jennifer Morgue"[0], from the Laundry series[1]. A very good read.

   [0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jennifer_Morgue

   [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_File...

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6. keithbaFeb 2014
   Most anything by Charles Stross, especially the Laundry series (Atrocity Archives, Jennifer Morgue, etc)
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