The Fuller Memorandum
by Charles Stross · first published 2010
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…very good, and largely free of the problems you mentioned, but is very different from much of the rest of the series, for reasons which will become obvious when you read it. It's in the third book, The Fuller Memorandum, where the series really hits its stride, and gets going. However, the series doesn't mind an offside wink or two every once in a while, like Persephone's parenthesized Enochian, and the way The Scrum…
on “Snow Crash Revisited: Grokking a Satire of Mimesis” ↗It's a pity there's no "in popular culture" or what-not section here. It shows up notably in book #3 of Charles Stross's The Laundry Files: The Fuller Memorandum and is quite a fun little sight in this ever delightful series mixing the occult & geek culture. Hopefully there's many other good references too.
on “Memex” ↗Yess! I'm currently reading The Fuller Memorandum and it's wild finding this today.
on “Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg” ↗ah, yes, good old Necropolitan Line. I first learned about it in "The Fuller Memorandum", a Laundry Files novel by cstross.
on “Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King” ↗