The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended on the world, beginning an exciting new story arc in the Laundry Files series! The ninth case in Charles Stross’ Hugo-winning series, The Labyrinth Index promises to be a weirdly alluring blend of superspy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror. Learn more about the novel and check out the full cover below!
The Labyrinth Index is arrives July 2018 from Tor.com Publishing. From the catalog copy:
The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House of Lords and head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs (think vampires), finds herself in direct consultation with the creeping chaos, who directs her to lead a team of disgraced Laundry personnel into the dark heart of America. It seems the Creeping Chaos is concerned about foreign relations.
A thousand-mile-wild storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the President is nowhere to be found. In fact, for reasons unknown the people of America are forgetting that the executive branch ever existed. The government has been infiltrated by the shadowy Black Chamber, and the Pentagon and NASA have been refocused on the problem of summoning Cthulhu.
Somewhere, the Secret Service battle to stay awake, to remind the President who he is, and to stay one step ahead of the vampiric dragnet that’s searching for him.
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I see a certain droop nosed bird on that cover, perhaps Squadron 666 will finally fly?
Or perhaps the cover designers should be more concerned about potential spoilers.
Who would have thought that a Lovecraftian singularity would be so dystopian?
So *thats* who Fabian is.
Hm. I thought it was previously established that Cthulhu (unlike the rest of the Lovecraftian pantheon) was fictional?
@@@@@David_Goldfarb Two thoughts on that. Firstly, has anyone told the Black Chamber that? and secondly, in the Laundryverse, if you go looking to raise a (possibly fictional) old god with untold powers, is it likely you’re going to get a happy ending either way? Anyway, I’m sure there’s all sorts of be-tentacled, bat-wingéd monstrosities from beyond Euclidean space who will be quite happy to pop in and eat some brains if they’re invited.
@@.-@, 5 If reality in the Laundry is at least partially consensual, then Cthulu might have been fictional at some point but not anymore.
I was connectionless yesterday, so I’ll comment today: SQUEEEE!
It took me some couple of geological ages to make the connection between The Black Pharaoh and Nyarlathotep.
David Goldfarb: the one thing we have established beyond doubt in the series so far is that Bob is an unreliable narrator.
The more the world goes to crap in this series the more I enjoy it:)
Amazon seems to think that this book is coming out in October 2018. Goodreads tells me it came out on 5 July 2018. ???