{"id":2118,"date":"2015-12-27T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T05:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2015-12-27T21:02:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T05:02:18","slug":"review-the-atrocity-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Atrocity Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not so much part of the target audience for Charles Stross&#8217;s Laundry Files books as I&#8217;m a member of its core constituency. His blend of fantasy and horror tropes, spy thriller homages, and computer systems in-jokes is pitch perfect to me.\u00a0 There is a great joy in following the combination of humor and plot allusions and realizing what&#8217;s coming a beat or two before one of the characters explains it.<\/p>\n<p>None of that would be worth anything if Stross put together a less diverting story behind the trappings.\u00a0 He&#8217;s quite an excellent and fun writer, executing a good story populated with believable characters &#8211; even when they&#8217;re supernatural.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not so much part of the target audience for Charles Stross&#8217;s Laundry Files books as I&#8217;m a member of its core constituency. His blend of fantasy and horror tropes, spy thriller homages, and computer systems in-jokes is pitch perfect to me.\u00a0 There is a great joy in following the combination of humor and plot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}