Björn recenserade The Atrocity Archives av Charles Stross
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3 stjärnor
There's a lot I love about this; the idea that the UK's anti-Cthulhu agency is just as bureaucratic, chaotic and affected by poor privatization efforts as any other government agency, Ahnenerbe mischief that's given enough weight, the technical application of magic, the idea that it's all really just tech support in the end... Of course, that also means we have a narrator who's as smugly superior as any other public-sector IT support guy, and enough technobabble to make a Doctor Who fan zone out. Not sure I'll bother with the rest of the series, but if I find vol 2 for cheap I might just pick it up.
There's a lot I love about this; the idea that the UK's anti-Cthulhu agency is just as bureaucratic, chaotic and affected by poor privatization efforts as any other government agency, Ahnenerbe mischief that's given enough weight, the technical application of magic, the idea that it's all really just tech support in the end... Of course, that also means we have a narrator who's as smugly superior as any other public-sector IT support guy, and enough technobabble to make a Doctor Who fan zone out. Not sure I'll bother with the rest of the series, but if I find vol 2 for cheap I might just pick it up.