I’m writing this post in part to recommend Charles Stross’s _The Jennifer Morgue_ (publisher, Powells, Amazon, As Brad DeLong says, if you’re into Cthulhu mythos, operating system humour, spy novels and parodies of bureaucracy, this is the novel for you. But mostly, I’m writing it to perpetrate the pun in the title, which in addition to being atrocious is also almost certainly incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t read the book already. But it could have been worse … [worser]Goldfingerling? Branzino Royale? Flounderball?[/worser] _Much_ worse.
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tps12 11.27.06 at 2:05 pm
“Operating system humor”?
Barry 11.27.06 at 2:29 pm
OK, I’ll look like a fool here. What pun?
Robin Green 11.27.06 at 6:09 pm
It is a pun on “The Spy who Loved Me”.
Barry 11.27.06 at 7:20 pm
I thought you meant the *book* title. Sheesh.
Phoenician in a time of Romans 11.27.06 at 9:49 pm
I’ve been recommending it to people since I first read it.
Back in March last year.
Charlie has a serious problem with “Halting State”, though – events in the real world have a bad habit of catching up with the goddamned novel.
ajay 11.28.06 at 11:58 am
The book title’s a reference to Operation Jennifer.
And, dammit, Amazon just cancelled my order. Something to do with Orbit buying the UK rights. So now I have to wait a year for the Orbit paperback or go through the hassle of getting hold of a copy from the US. Aargh!
Henry 11.28.06 at 12:07 pm
ajay – see Stross “here”:http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2006/11/amazoncouk_administrivia.html on this problem.
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