The Nightmare Stacks
core novel 2016 The Laundry Files
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.23 (6,925 ratings, collected 2026-10-28) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780425281192 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
Alex Schwartz, a former banker turned vampire who now works for the Laundry, is posted to Leeds and falls for Cassie, a student who is not what she seems. She is a scout for the alfar, the elves of a parallel Earth whose own world was ruined by civil war and who now intend to invade ours. When the elven host comes through and attacks the city, it proves formidable with magic but helpless against modern weapons. The invasion ends with Cassie as ruler of the surviving elves, and her first act is to surrender to the British army and ask for asylum.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Laundry Files
- Series: The Laundry Files core; position 7 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles Stross
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2017: finalist; Locus reader-poll placement, ranked 4.
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 10 of 15: previous The Annihilation Score (2015) · next The Delirium Brief (2017)
- Internal chronology, within The Laundry Files: position 10 of 14: previous The Annihilation Score (2015) · next The Delirium Brief (2017)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Laundry Files
- Wikipedia: Charles Stross bibliography
- Reader ratings: Laundry Files series page
- Publishers Weekly: Charles Stross author page
- Science Fiction Awards Database: Charles Stross
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