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What does the "thaumaturgy hazard trefoil" look like?
This image is from Charles Stross' official Merchandise site
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Why did the Laundry allow Lovecraft to publish the truth about Cthulu, etc?
Because Lovecraft (in Laundry-verse) was a fraud whose work was, by and large, not very close to the Truth. Even so, the Laundry and its counterparts in other countries did censor some of his works ...
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Was Bob Howard always intended to be BOFH?
I found this in a Reddit AMA from Charles Stross:
I only recently realised Bob's initials were BOFH!!
do you frequent theregister still, or comment on it?
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Where's the New Annex?
We get a lot of details indirectly from Bob's trip to the Stacks in The Fuller Memorandum. He leaves from the New Annex, the Stacks were under Dansey House and haven't been moved. Bob makes the trip ...
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Reading Charles Stross Laundry Series out of order
According to the author, the chronological order of all current and projected books is as follows.
The Atrocity Archives
which collects
The Atrocity Archive
The Concrete Jungle
The Jennifer Morgue
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What was Persephone Hazard doing at the time of "The Nightmare Stacks"
Persephone Hazard was very briefly mentioned in Chapter 12 of 'The Nightmare Stacks' but played no other role in the story.
Excerpt from Chapter 12 (bold emphasis by me)...
this is understood by ...
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Where's Dansey House?
It's said in a couple of the books that Dansey house is in an Edwardian building. Based only on that and the location there is a large Edwardian on the Charing Cross side of Leicester Square itself, ...
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Where's Dansey House?
I always assumed that although the location is wrong by about a mile, it was based on 54 Broadway, the secret headquarters of the SIS during WW2. I've been to meetings there when the London ...
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