By Charles Stross TorDotCom $28.99 (hc) ISBN: 978-1-250-35784-7 Stross’s latest entry in the “Laundry Files” sequence comprises a novella-length piece and two short stories. The novella, which bears the same title as the volume as a whole, follows the career of Derek, who in 1984 was a teen-aged role-playing gamer. In response to a panic over the supposed satanic elements of the game, the Laundry—the UK’s agency protecting the realm against occult intrusions—swept up Derek and sent him to Camp Sunshine, a facility for deprogramming members of cults of the Elder Gods. But while other campers come and are successfully

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