89,000 words into a 100,000 word manuscript and I've just hit the climax.
(Signs there's a climax happening: the Queen is glowing violet and shrivelling, Nyarlathotep has gone to the mattresses, and Bob has just stumbled across a mass human sacrifice in progress in Buckingham Palace …)
If you are someone working in #IT or #itsecurity I highly recommend the books by British #SF author #CharlesStross especially his Laundry Files series of novels. Why? Well, he's one of us! No other author I've read actually knows his way around a CLI, has administered computers himself and still cares about #Linux & other geeky IT stuff like Charlie. Ok, the other exception being #nealstephenson who used to be an engineer and famously had one of his protagonists use the #emacs editor in #Cryptonomicon. He's here on Mastodon @cstross and one of the nicest "famous" people to follow since he actually replies to and engages his followers while others just push their latest work and ignore your comments or questions.
"Did you ever wonder why the 21st century feels like we're living in a bad cyberpunk novel from the 1980s?
"It's because these guys read those cyberpunk novels and mistook a dystopia for a road map. They're rich enough to bend reality to reflect their desires."
@Radical_EgoCom This sounds like the best #WritingPrompt for a #sciencefiction#novel I've seen in a very long time.
I won't be trying to write it but I'd love to read it. If anyone's already done it, I want to know.
If not, who's going to do it? #scalzi#charlesstross would be top of my list.