Title: EquoidAuthor: Charles Stross
Series: Laundry Files #2.9
First Published: October 16, 2013
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages: 98
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Format: Ebook
Source: Free Promotion
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Synopsis:
The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horrors imaginable. For, as it turns out, unicorns are real. They're also ravenous killers from beyond spacetime...
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What a pleasant surprise! Lovecraftian horror with a wonderful dash of humor to boot. I’m relatively new to the urban fantasy genre, and I had never actually heard of Charles Stross nor did I know that this little novella was part of a series until after I had picked it up. Bob is a likable protagonist and the story stayed surprisingly lighthearted despite the seriously dark and creepy subject matter. Equoid takes the classically pure unicorn from traditional fantasy and transforms it into a terrifying creature of nightmares.
The story was fantastic and I loved all the little twists and turns as it progressed. Despite the fact that at the end it is pretty clear how the rest of the story plays out, it drove me batty and I wished that the ending was better developed, it felt extremely rushed. The book left me wanting more and piqued my interest in The Laundry Files. Equoid is a stand-alone story it can be read easily without having read any of the other books in the series.
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“Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant and it’s hot enough to sterilize cholera bacteria.”
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About Charles Stross
Charles David George “Charlie” Stross is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.
Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams and Richard Morgan.
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