I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and seems well connected (I've seen him being credited in a couple of novels I enjoyed) but 'The Atrocity Archives' fell completely flat for me.I'm just about finished with Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives (I bought it two years ago, started reading it and then lost it, and just found it again recently.) I know about his other stuff combining James Bond-style spy tropes and the Cthulhu Mythos, and I need to get it. I like his writing, and when I read it I just get a big kick out of remembering that it's the same guy who created the Death Knight, Githyanki, Githzerai, and the Slaadi!
I wouldn't say it was atrocious (
) but it was still probably the worst novel I've read in the past two years. I found it overly clichéd and predictable.One of the first things I'll do when I get my kindle is to look for every Mythos story I can find.
In the meantime I continue reading all of the Ars Magica sourcebooks that have accumulated in the past year. I'm almost done with 'The Church' - which really made me want to re-read Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' - and will continue with 'Legends of Hermes'.
