The Annihilation Score (Laundry Files)

2204 Pages·2015·3.03 MB·English

by  Charles Stross

Charles Stross is a full-time
science fiction writer and
resident of Edinburgh,
Scotland. The author of six
Hugo-nominated novels and
winner of the 2005 and 2010
Hugo Awards for best novella
(“The Concrete Jungle” and
“Palimpsest”), Stross’s works
have been translated into over
twelve languages.
Like many writers,
Stross has had a variety of
careers, occupations and job-
shaped catastrophes in the
past, from pharmacist (he quit
after the second police stake-
out) to first code monkey on
the team of a successful dot-
com start-up (with brilliant
timing he tried to change
employer just as the bubble
burst). Along the way he
collected degrees in
Pharmacy and Computer
Science, making him the
world’s first officially
qualified cyberpunk writer
(just as cyberpunk died).
In 2013 he was Creative
in Residence at the UK-wide
Centre for Creativity,
Regulation, Enterprise and
Technology, researching the
business models and
regulation of industries such
as music, film, TV, computer
games and publishing.

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B C S
Y HARLES TROSS
Saturn’s Children
Singularity Sky
Iron Sunrise
Accelerando
Glasshouse
Wireless: The Essential
Collection
Halting State
Rule 34
Neptune’s Brood
The Laundry Files
The Atrocity Archives
The Jennifer Morgue
The Fuller Memorandum
The Apocalypse Codex
The Rhesus Chart
The Annihilation Score
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