• @TexasDrunk
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    97 hours ago

    If you enjoyed this fun fact, start reading The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Once you get to book 4 come back here and thank me. Tongue eating isopods from beyond the stars play a role there, and appear briefly later in one of his New Management books, although I don’t have the page handy so I’m not sure which one.

    Their nastier cousins make an appearance later in the Laundry Files, but I’ll leave what they do a mystery.

    If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

    • @Omgpwnies
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      23 hours ago

      I am currently reading The Apocalypse Codex, and immediately thought of that :) Great series so far

    • @[email protected]
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      55 hours ago

      If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

      • @Cort
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        53 hours ago

        I read the list like it was for one of Stefan’s nightclubs

    • Final Remix
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      25 hours ago

      I gotta give that stuff a try again. Twice I’ve started Laundry Files and just couldn’t get into it, despite loving the context.

      • @TexasDrunk
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        23 hours ago

        After the first three he doesn’t write them as pastiches of other authors and I think they get better.