Monday, May 2, 2011

Next Item: (3492) The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

Publisher's Summary:

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross continues to make a name for himself in the sci-fi genre. The Jennifer Morgue is an extension of Stross's award-winning novella The Concrete Jungle.

Bob Howard is a special operative for the British agency called The Laundry, and his task is to stop a rogue billionaire from using an artifact, known as Gravedust, with the power to reanimate the dead. The U.S. Black Agency sends the lethal Ramona Random to aid Bob's mission, but she seems to have a different agenda.
What the Critics Say:

"[A]lternately chilling and hilarious....It's up to Bob and a collection of British eccentrics even Monty Python would consider odd to stop the bad guy and save the world, while getting receipts for all expenditures or else face the most dreaded menace of all: the Laundry's own auditors. Stross has a marvelous time making eldritch horror appear commonplace in the face of bureaucracy."

Approx Running Time: 13 hrs and 46 mins Plus Music Interlude.


On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0441018149?tag=dahuntsr&camp=213761&creative=393545&linkCode=bpl&creativeASIN=0441018149&adid=0JJ3BBCBSGAXPD9JB87G&


MUSIC INTERLUDE:
Best of Herman's Hermits
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00000IBJI?tag=dahuntsr&camp=213761&creative...


Electric Light Orchestra, Out of the Blue
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015XAT3Y?tag=dahuntsr&camp=213761&creative...