A series of science fiction spy thrillers about Bob Howard (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant, now field agent working for British government agency "the Laundry", which deals with occult threats. Influenced by Lovecraft's visions of the future, and set in a world where a computer and the right mathematical equations is just as useful a tool-set for calling up horrors from other dimensions as a spell-book and a pentagram on the floor.
A Conventional Boy (short novel released on 7 January 2025,[10][3][11] taking place between The Apocalypse Codex and The Rhesus Chart).[3] The book also contains Down on the Farm and Overtime[10] (ISBN978-0356524641).
Tales of the New Management
Tales of the New Management is a spin-off from the main series, set after CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN.
The Merchant Princes is a series in which some humans have an ability to travel between parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology. This series is science fiction, even though it was originally marketed by the publisher as fantasy. It was originally intended to be a trilogy, but at the end the writing of the first novel, the publisher requested that it be split for shorter length, and this length carried over to the other novels.
The first three books were collectively nominated for and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2007.
The first six books were later re-edited back into the originally intended form as three longer novels.[17] The new books were released in the UK beginning in April 2013,[18] and in DRM-free format in the United States in January 2014.[17]
Science-fiction/crime novels set 'fifteen minutes in the future' which concentrate on life in the early 21st century, which are centered in Edinburgh in an independent Scotland, and how innovations in policing, surveillance, economics, computer games, the internet, memes and other inventions may change our lives in the future. Both novels are told in second-person viewpoint. The series was originally planned to be a trilogy but Stross claimed his current plot idea were mooted by the Snowden revelations and he was no longer planning a third book.[19]
The Lambda Functionary (was planned for 2014,[1] but plans cancelled in 2013[19][22])
Saturn's Children series
Stross's space opera series, featuring the android society that develops after the extinction of humanity. Stross has referred to the setting for these stories as the "Freyaverse."[23]
"Minutes of the Labour Party Conference 2016" (2007, short story in the Glorifying Terrorism anthology)
"A Bird in Hand" (2011, short story in the Fables from the Fountain anthology; 1st ed., NewCon Press, 2011; 2nd ed., NewCon Press, 2018 ISBN978-1-910935-74-3)
^Cubicle 7 Entertainment Web Store. "The Laundry". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^The 5-year gap is established several times early in the novel during chapters from Liz Kavanaugh's point of view - a convenient way to establish this, since she appears in both (novels); while she refers to the events of the preceding novel euphemistically, it's pretty clear she's describing the same events, if in five-years-on perspective...
^He more recently wrote: "this outcome [Scottish independence election] sort of rules out writing an explicit sequel to "Halting State" and "Rule 34"" - Stross, Charles (19 September 2014). "The Morning After". Retrieved 21 May 2015. - but at least implies in the same paragraph that a "third second-person near-future Scottish crime novel" (a less explicit sequel?) may still be in the works.
