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cstross has explicitly said that Dead Lies Dreaming is not book 10 in the Laundry series.
The Delirium Brief was released today, and is in stores. I was able to buy a copy. John Nagle ( talk) 06:31, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
I have some trouble with this section:
"While "Bob Oliver Francis Howard" matches the author of the original Conan the Barbarian stories, it is more likely to be a reference to the "Bastard Operator From Hell" which matches the protagonist's nominal systems administration job and his attitude towards field work.[7] Bob's boss in the Laundry uses the pseudonym "James Jesus Angleton", possibly out of a desire to irritate American intelligence agents.[8]"
The author of Conan is Robert E. Howard, so there's no match aside from the first and last name. I find this quite confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezekiel Stargazer ( talk • contribs) 08:44, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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Charlie has explicitly stated that the Laundryverse timeline ends in 2015: "the Laundry Files series is the story of the Lovecraftian Singularity; it has to come to some sort of defining moment, doesn't it? And it's really hard to write past a singularity". I feel this should be acknowledged within the article in some way. DS ( talk) 18:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
SnowFire, regarding this reversion and the edit summary of "it's an unimportant detail. Don't really see the relevance of adding exactly how far along the drain-heat plan has gone, it's quite minor" - It is not a minor plot point; the Frost Giant has consumed all the energy in the universe so it needs the fusion bomb because there is no other source of sufficient energy left available to it. If there were it could just use a star or galaxy to force a portal, but it didn't think of that until it was too late.
There are multiple references and mentions during Bob's time in the depleted universe where he notes the lack of energy - the red shifting stars, indeed the stars going out, the drain on the probe & basilisk gun batteries, and the ambient temperature of the planet they're on, to name several.
It's an important plot point because otherwise there is no logical reason as to why the Frost Giant would create such a convoluted scheme in order leave the universe it is already in just to travel to Earth. It wants to travel because there is - literally - nothing left in the universe it currently inhabits.
Also as it is the text is somewhat misleading - Earth hasn't been "destroyed", just stripped of energy. If it were destroyed, how could they be gallivanting around on it? Chaheel Riens ( talk) 19:33, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
@ Anameofmyveryown: First, thanks for updating the article. Definitely don't want to scare you off here! That said, I think the style you have is off here.
Anyway, hope this doesn't come across as too nitpicky. I still need to catch up and read the middle books in the series... if you have any interest in working on the article still, go for it. Some external reviews / notice of the middle books would be great to add if you can find it, as a thought... the reviews of the Atrocity Archives are pretty handy from a Wikipedia perspective of valuing external, third party notice. SnowFire ( talk) 18:48, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
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cstross has explicitly said that Dead Lies Dreaming is not book 10 in the Laundry series.
The Delirium Brief was released today, and is in stores. I was able to buy a copy. John Nagle ( talk) 06:31, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
I have some trouble with this section:
"While "Bob Oliver Francis Howard" matches the author of the original Conan the Barbarian stories, it is more likely to be a reference to the "Bastard Operator From Hell" which matches the protagonist's nominal systems administration job and his attitude towards field work.[7] Bob's boss in the Laundry uses the pseudonym "James Jesus Angleton", possibly out of a desire to irritate American intelligence agents.[8]"
The author of Conan is Robert E. Howard, so there's no match aside from the first and last name. I find this quite confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezekiel Stargazer ( talk • contribs) 08:44, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
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Charlie has explicitly stated that the Laundryverse timeline ends in 2015: "the Laundry Files series is the story of the Lovecraftian Singularity; it has to come to some sort of defining moment, doesn't it? And it's really hard to write past a singularity". I feel this should be acknowledged within the article in some way. DS ( talk) 18:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
SnowFire, regarding this reversion and the edit summary of "it's an unimportant detail. Don't really see the relevance of adding exactly how far along the drain-heat plan has gone, it's quite minor" - It is not a minor plot point; the Frost Giant has consumed all the energy in the universe so it needs the fusion bomb because there is no other source of sufficient energy left available to it. If there were it could just use a star or galaxy to force a portal, but it didn't think of that until it was too late.
There are multiple references and mentions during Bob's time in the depleted universe where he notes the lack of energy - the red shifting stars, indeed the stars going out, the drain on the probe & basilisk gun batteries, and the ambient temperature of the planet they're on, to name several.
It's an important plot point because otherwise there is no logical reason as to why the Frost Giant would create such a convoluted scheme in order leave the universe it is already in just to travel to Earth. It wants to travel because there is - literally - nothing left in the universe it currently inhabits.
Also as it is the text is somewhat misleading - Earth hasn't been "destroyed", just stripped of energy. If it were destroyed, how could they be gallivanting around on it? Chaheel Riens ( talk) 19:33, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
@ Anameofmyveryown: First, thanks for updating the article. Definitely don't want to scare you off here! That said, I think the style you have is off here.
Anyway, hope this doesn't come across as too nitpicky. I still need to catch up and read the middle books in the series... if you have any interest in working on the article still, go for it. Some external reviews / notice of the middle books would be great to add if you can find it, as a thought... the reviews of the Atrocity Archives are pretty handy from a Wikipedia perspective of valuing external, third party notice. SnowFire ( talk) 18:48, 6 February 2022 (UTC)