The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross audiobook

The Atrocity Archives

By Charles Stross
Read by Gideon Emery

Recorded Books, Inc.

The Laundry Files Series: Book 1

10.95 Hours Unabridged
Format : Digital Download (In Stock)
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    ISBN: 9781440790171

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    ISBN: 9781664500709

A Hugo Award winner and best-selling author, Charles Stross combines the best elements of science fiction and fantasy. In The Atrocity Archives, a lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he's faced with saving the universe using only his smarts and a disembodied hand that renders him invisible. Stross' award-winning novella, The Concrete Jungle, is also included.

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A Hugo Award winner and best-selling author, Charles Stross combines the best elements of science fiction and fantasy. In The Atrocity Archives, a lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he's faced with saving the universe using only his smarts and a disembodied hand that renders him invisible. Stross' award-winning novella, The Concrete Jungle, is also included.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“It’s science fiction’s most pleasant surprise of the year.” San Francisco’s Chronicle
“With often hilarious results, the author mixes the occult and the mundane, the truly weird, and the petty…Wonderful fun.” Publishers Weekly
“Highlights Stross’ storytelling expertise and vivid imagination.” Library Journal

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Author Bio: Charles Stross

Author Bio: Charles Stross

Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels, including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn’s Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

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Available Formats : Digital Download, CD
Runtime: 10.95
Audience: Adult
Language: English