The Fuller Memorandum
core novel 2010 The Laundry Files
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.19 (12,849 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781841497709 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
A document describing a supernatural entity called the Eater of Souls goes missing, and so does Bob Howard's enigmatic boss, James Angleton. Bob has to find both while cultists loyal to Nyarlathotep, some of them double agents inside the Laundry itself, close in on him. When the cult captures Bob and tries to bind the Eater of Souls into his body, the plan founders on a secret the agency has kept for decades: the entity was bound into Angleton long ago and has come to share the Laundry's goals. Bob survives by raising the dead against the cultists. The novel is an homage to Anthony Price's spy thrillers.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Laundry Files
- Series: The Laundry Files core; position 3 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles Stross
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2011: finalist; Locus reader-poll placement, ranked 3.
Notes
- From the series record (The Laundry Files): The main sequence about the Laundry, Britain's secret occult intelligence agency, from Bob Howard's first field mission to the agency's end.
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 The Laundry Files: position 5 of 15: previous Overtime (2009) · next The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
- Internal chronology, within The Laundry Files: position 5 of 14: previous Quantum of Nightmares (2022) · next Season of Skulls (2023)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Laundry Files
- Wikipedia: Charles Stross bibliography
- Reader ratings: Laundry Files series page
- ISBN-13 form of the recorded ISBN-10 0553378465 (same edition)
- Science Fiction Awards Database: Charles Stross
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