Like his peer Cory Doctorow Stross has an ironic Generation X sensibility conditioned in his case by time spent in the simultaneously thrilling and boring World... » 

Like his peer Cory Doctorow Stross has an ironic Generation X sensibility conditioned in his case by time spent in the simultaneously thrilling and boring World of information technology. In The Atrocity Archives Strosss genius lies in devoting fully as much time to the bureaucratic shenanigans of the Laundry as he does to its thaumaturgic mission. What with all the persnickety time charts and useless meetings Howard has to deal with its a wonder the world gets saved at all. «