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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you enjoyed this fun fact, start reading The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Once you get to book 4 come back here and thank me. Tongue eating isopods from beyond the stars play a role there, and appear briefly later in one of his New Management books, although I don't have the page handy so I'm not sure which one.

Their nastier cousins make an appearance later in the Laundry Files, but I'll leave what they do a mystery.

If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don't exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don't exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I read the list like it was for one of Stefan's nightclubs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I gotta give that stuff a try again. Twice I've started Laundry Files and just couldn't get into it, despite loving the context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

After the first three he doesn't write them as pastiches of other authors and I think they get better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I am currently reading The Apocalypse Codex, and immediately thought of that :) Great series so far