"Halting State [is] a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable." - Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case....

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk...

The fifth Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross, and a jumping-on point for readers new to the series, The Rhesus Chart sees hacker and supernatural spy Bob Howard take on the (literal) bloodsuckers running London's financial district....

Dead Lies Dreaming von Stross, Charles

Invisible Sun concludes Charles Stross's Empire Games trilogy, where two versions of America are locked in a cold war. This is a chillingly resonant dystopian vision. Two twinned worlds are waiting for war . . . America is caught in a...

The Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes seriesThe six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal...

A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecraftian horror, Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Laundry Files continues with Quantum of Nightmares.It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is...

"Stross's work offers a potent reminder of why short stories used to be the preferred delivery method for science fiction." - The A.V. Club This selection of speculative fiction runs the gamut-from "Palimpsest," a decidedly...

Alex Schwartz had a great job and a promising future - until he caught an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret intelligence agency.His first assignment is...

A new adventure begins in the bestselling world of the Laundry Files: a nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream . . . von Stross, Charles

It's a time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secretsRita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate...

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and...