The Fuller Memorandum

I read Charles Stross’ The Fuller Memorandum this weekend, and it was good enough to keep me reading until I finished it at 5 am. That’s not bad.

On the other hand, I felt like I was always missing something significant that seemed like it should have “gone without saying”, and I think that’s because, as I searched for it today online, I found out it was the third in the series (The Laundry Files).

I have to admit to being a little irritated about that, solely because there was no indication on the front cover, back cover or fold that it was the latter part of a series – clearly it was “A Laundry Files Novel”, but there was no reference to the other books, let alone an indication of order.

Not that I’m mad – I think a book should stand on its own, even if it is enhanced by previous books, so as long as it didn’t totally spoil anything in the other two books, I’m cool. It just makes me wonder, with this fantastic cover and all, couldn’t they have said “book 3” somewhere?

~ by Skennedy on October 18, 2010.

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6 Responses to “The Fuller Memorandum”

  1. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/

    You can ask him about it at the site above… I don’t recall if he discussed that cover, but I have seen him bewailing some of the other cover art and/or blurbs on his books. I think they’re stand-alones, but I’ve only read some shorts from the Laundryverse (oops, not intended as a pun) and haven’t gotten to the novels yet.

    — Steve probably should, as he enjoyed the heck out of the short stories.

    anton_p_nym said this on October 18, 2010 at 5:01 pm

  2. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/

    You can ask him about it at the site above… I don’t recall if he discussed that cover, but I have seen him bewailing some of the other cover art and/or blurbs on his books. I think they’re stand-alones, but I’ve only read some shorts from the Laundryverse (oops, not intended as a pun) and haven’t gotten to the novels yet.

    — Steve probably should, as he enjoyed the heck out of the short stories.

    anton_p_nym said this on October 18, 2010 at 5:01 pm

  3. Definitely read the other Laundry novels, and the short stories including Down on the Farm and Overtime.

    matt_arnold said this on October 18, 2010 at 9:10 pm

  4. Definitely read the other Laundry novels, and the short stories including Down on the Farm and Overtime.

    matt_arnold said this on October 18, 2010 at 9:10 pm

  5. Also on a Stross note:

    http://www.bestsf.net/presents/RogueFarm.html
    http://vimeo.com/8628186

    morbid_curious said this on October 18, 2010 at 9:43 pm

  6. Also on a Stross note:

    http://www.bestsf.net/presents/RogueFarm.html
    http://vimeo.com/8628186

    morbid_curious said this on October 18, 2010 at 9:43 pm

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