Dead Lies Dreaming Dead Lies Dreaming

Publisher Description

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel.

As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere.

In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2020
October 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Tor Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
3.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Resivan ,

Better than the opening scene suggests

Perhaps because I spent the weekend before this came bing watching The Boys, I came close to bouncing off this book. Imp & Co were clearly coded as people I should be rooting for, but they came off as D-list supes up to no good and my sympathies were completely with the normies they were robbing. Fortunately, Stross pivoted to a much more evil, and more interesting, character for the next scene.

This is being pitched as a new entry point for the series. I’m not sure it will work as that. There’s a lot that I doubt will make any sense to someone who hasn’t read any of the previous Laundry books.

Prairie_Dog ,

The Second New Management Novel is Great!

“Dead Lies Dreaming” is a novel by Charles Stross which is set in his Laundry Series, and the second of the “New Management” novels in this series. While it’s part of the main narrative, it seems to tell a side story that doesn’t really relate to the Laundry itself.

In this novel we follow Jeremy “Imp” Starkey and his found family. These young people have all discovered that they now possess trans-human powers, and they use them to commit crimes. This is all to a higher purpose though, as they are trying to get enough funds to make an art film. This is particularly dangerous in the United Kingdom as his Dread Majesty the Prime Minister has reinstated the eighteenth-century Bloody Code that prescribes capital punishment for almost everything.

Imp and his friends are about to be recruited by his sister Evie and her billionaire boss to retrieve a unique manuscript. This is a very dangerous book, one which it turns out has a direct connection to the Starkey family. They discover this book is hidden in the family Dreamlands, in a definitely dangerous version of 1888 London.

This Laundry novel has plenty of the dry dark humor that is characteristic of the series. It does an admirable job of including the events of the various previous novels into the narrative. The next novel in the Laundry Series is also a New Management title, “Quantum of Nightmares.”

Ken Follet ,

Dead Lies Dreaming

Good ending but not as much fun as earlier books in the series.

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