Dead Lies Dreaming
core novel 2020 The Laundry Files
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (3,525 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250267023 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In a Britain ruled by the New Management, where magic and superpowers have gone mainstream, the plutocrat Rupert Bigge, secretly the high priest of an elder god, wants a lost book that grants its owner occult power. His executive assistant Evelyn Starkey is ordered to get it by any means, and recruits her younger brother Imp and his gang of small-time crooks, which draws the attention of Wendy Deere, a corporate thief-taker. The hunt runs through Everyman's London and, by an extradimensional passage, into past and mythical versions of the city. Loosely built on Peter Pan, the novel opens a separate trilogy set in the same world as the Laundry books.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Laundry Files
- Series: Tales of the New Management core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles Stross
Awards (verified)
- Dragon Award (Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)), 2021: nominated
Notes
- Marketed in the US as the tenth Laundry Files book; the author treats it as the first of the Tales of the New Management.
- From the series record (Tales of the New Management): Spin-off trilogy set in the same world after the main crisis, following ordinary people in the Britain ruled by Prime Minister Fabian Everyman.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Tales of the New Management: position 1 of 3: next Quantum of Nightmares (2022)
- Internal chronology, within The Laundry Files: position 2 of 14: previous The Atrocity Archives (2004) · next The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Laundry Files
- Wikipedia: Charles Stross bibliography
- Reader ratings: Laundry Files series page
- Science Fiction Awards Database: Charles Stross
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