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A Conventional Boy

By Charles Stross
A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross digital book - Fable

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In this new Laundry Files adventure the fate of the world will literally depend on the roll of dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.

In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teenage dungeon master growing up in middle England. But then a secret government agency tasked with suppressing magical intrusions received a tip-off – and one midnight raid later, his life was turned upside down by the Satanic D&D Panic.

Decades later Derek, now middle-aged and institutionalized, is a long-term inmate at Camp Sunshine, a center for deprogramming captured Elder God cultists. He’s considered safe enough to edit the camp newsletter, and he even has postal privileges – which he uses to run a play-by-mail game. After 25 years, Derek finally has reason to escape: a nearby D&D convention. While Derek’s D&D games were full of fictional elder gods and world-ending threats, a LARP game at the con is a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world, and it’s up to Derek and his players to stop them.

The fate of the world may depend on the contents of Derek’s magic dice bag.

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3.5
“Charles Stross’ Laundry series is a hoot to read! It combines government agency with magic and other dimensional horrors- there are a lot of books and they are all so much fun to read! If you can imagine your government being run by a Cthulhu type entity then this is for you😏”
“A fanficky novella – in Stross’s unmistakable style. Two short stories I've already read (good stories, tho.) An (interesting) note/explanation by the author at the end. I had fun. I still want another Laundry book. (Although I'm getting impatient with the inertia when it comes to the overarching plot.) (And I want Bob back 😭)”
“I haven’t read any of the other Laundry Files books that are about a top secret British spy network fighting supernatural threats. This book contains the title novella and two short stories. It’s a lot of fun. The novella is about Derek who was locked up as teenage D&D player during the satanic panic of the eighties and has been held in a camp ever since. Forty odd years later he escapes to attend a gaming conference being sponsored by an actual demon summoning cult. An enjoyable ride if you know a bit about dungeons and dragons etc!”

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