Kevin reviewed The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
Forecast Ops as co-author
4 stars
I'm way behind in the Laundry Files series, but I love it because I'll go and check in every so often, picking up where I left off. So here we are, reading The Delerium Brief, published in 2018, in the first quarter of 2025.
And from this I know that Forecast Ops (the section of the Laundry that uses oracles to peer into the future and use eldritch probability theory to prognosticate what is going to happen) is real and the author is in direct contact with them.
You see, the premise is that these secret goverment agencies that protect us from unimaginable powers sleeping in the dark recesses of space or wherever are being defunded and agents of those powers plan to use regulatory capture to remove them from the board. Reading this in 2025, it feels all too real, sort of like trying to find humor …
I'm way behind in the Laundry Files series, but I love it because I'll go and check in every so often, picking up where I left off. So here we are, reading The Delerium Brief, published in 2018, in the first quarter of 2025.
And from this I know that Forecast Ops (the section of the Laundry that uses oracles to peer into the future and use eldritch probability theory to prognosticate what is going to happen) is real and the author is in direct contact with them.
You see, the premise is that these secret goverment agencies that protect us from unimaginable powers sleeping in the dark recesses of space or wherever are being defunded and agents of those powers plan to use regulatory capture to remove them from the board. Reading this in 2025, it feels all too real, sort of like trying to find humor in The Onion when there stories are the less bad version of reality. @cstross@wandering.shop uses his prescience to look 7 years into the future and the horrors lying just under the surface.
All in all, a great addition to the Laundry Files series.
