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| Syd |
 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2026 12:43 am |
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Syd wrote: Now going through "The Regicide Report" by Charles Stross, which finally brings back Bob and Mo Howard and is currently all over the place. Apparently Queen Elizabeth II was murdered in 2014 by dimethyl mercury, which is a particularly potent neurotoxin administered by, apparently, the current Prime Minister, the incarnation of Nyarlathotep. She's currently in a glass coffin (and a vampire), a la Snow White, though it's actually Doctor Phibes who created it. The novel gets progressively more incoherent, though I hope it winds up okay, but really, the novel makes no sense.
It makes somewhat more sense at the end, but not that much, and is disappointingly the last of the Laundry Files novels. I know it's been 25 years but is this where you want to leave us? It does leave us Bob as the archivist of the Laundry (which dates back to John Dees in the reign of Elizabeth I) so Bob still has tales to tell. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:50 pm |
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Syd wrote: ..... She's currently in a glass coffin (and a vampire), a la Snow White, though it's actually Doctor Phibes who created it....
Dr Phibes is a character in the Stross book? Or you mean the seventies movie was where the suspended animation coffin was developed as a concept? I guess it's a sort of meta joke. I recall some chuckles that Phibes assistant was called Vulnavia, which seemed quite suggestive and was (to 15 year old me) a bit titillating. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 11:55 pm |
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| Rereading Captain Vorpatril's Alliance which is a lot of fun. not least because the determined bachelor Ivan Vorpatril finds himself in an accidental (and chivalrous) marriage that both of them want anyway. Particularly because both of them wind up up to their necks in shit and wind up smelling somewhat like roses. The epilogue is obviously Emperor Gregor's wedding present even if they don't realize it. Lois McMaster Bujold is like Terry Pratchett in that she fixes up all her characters with the best partner imaginable for instance Ivan and Tej and really all of their families. |
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