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A review by onceandfuturelaura
Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
3.0
Nyarlathotep is Prime Minister, Santa has been executed in front of a toy store, and an obscenely rich man who had backed a different Great Old One for Number 10 is after the Necronomicon makes the very clever decision to hire a team of people who have a very good reason to never grow up.
Life goes on, for most, on the other side of the negotiated apocalypse. A bit more outsourcing, a lot more skulls on display. People find a way to accommodate life under Lovecraftian Capitalism. Shades of James Bond, Peter Pan, Marvel, DC, and Doctor Who abound.
But as high as the stakes were, it just seemed like a side quest of a bunch of non player characters. I liked them well enough, but I wasn't invested in any of them enough to really feel their peril, loss, or triumph. They are, all of them, participating in a system that will kill them dead, dead, and deader, and all the good things in the world with them. But unlike Bob or Mo, I just didn't feel them. Also, Angleton let the freaking Necronomicon abide??? Heads should roll.
Life goes on, for most, on the other side of the negotiated apocalypse. A bit more outsourcing, a lot more skulls on display. People find a way to accommodate life under Lovecraftian Capitalism. Shades of James Bond, Peter Pan, Marvel, DC, and Doctor Who abound.
But as high as the stakes were, it just seemed like a side quest of a bunch of non player characters. I liked them well enough, but I wasn't invested in any of them enough to really feel their peril, loss, or triumph. They are, all of them, participating in a system that will kill them dead, dead, and deader, and all the good things in the world with them. But unlike Bob or Mo, I just didn't feel them. Also, Angleton let the freaking Necronomicon abide??? Heads should roll.