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Book Review: Equoid, by Charles Stross
A Laundry novella about My Little Ponies from hell.
What happens when you mix unicorns, virgins, and Lovecraft.
( What happens when you mix unicorns, virgins, and Lovecraft. )
Verdict: As an homage and satire of Lovecraft, Equoid is both funny and repulsive; if you like gruesome monsters and British humor, it's a good read, but if the life-cycle of alien mollusks who depend on young girls to spread their spawn does not sound appealing, this may not be your cup of tea.
Also by Charles Stross: My reviews of Accelerando, Saturn's Children, and Neptune's Brood.
My complete list of book reviews.
"Equoid" is set shortly before the events of the "The Fuller Memorandum". It's the longest non-novel-length Laundry story so far. And it explains (among other things) precisely what H. P. Lovecraft saw behind the wood-shed when he was 14 that traumatized him for life, the reproductive life-cycle of unicorns, and what really happened on Cold Comfort Farm.
What happens when you mix unicorns, virgins, and Lovecraft.
( What happens when you mix unicorns, virgins, and Lovecraft. )
Verdict: As an homage and satire of Lovecraft, Equoid is both funny and repulsive; if you like gruesome monsters and British humor, it's a good read, but if the life-cycle of alien mollusks who depend on young girls to spread their spawn does not sound appealing, this may not be your cup of tea.
Also by Charles Stross: My reviews of Accelerando, Saturn's Children, and Neptune's Brood.
My complete list of book reviews.