Dead Lies Dreaming
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Charles Stross’s “Dead Lies Dreaming” is an inventive occult heist novel that opens a new series in the universe of “The Laundry Files”. A policewoman and a crew of petty criminals hunt a forbidden spellbook now that magic is public knowledge. Some readers enjoy its blend of cosmic horror and a fairy-tale thread borrowed from Peter Pan, though the Laundry itself barely appears. Newcomers can start here.
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About the book
"In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened. The secret agents of the Laundry Files novels were unable to stop magic becoming public knowledge - in this new series by the same author, the repercussions of that failure are being felt by ordinary people everywhere, as the world slides unknowingly towards occult cataclysm..."--Provided by publisher.
Reading order · The Laundry Files
Full order & progress →- The Atrocity ArchivesStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - The Jennifer Morgue
7.87.8 / 10 - The Fuller Memorandum
8.08.0 / 10 - The Apocalypse Codex
8.08.0 / 10 - The Rhesus Chart
7.97.9 / 10 - The Annihilation Score
7.87.8 / 10 - The Nightmare Stacks
7.87.8 / 10 - The Delirium Brief
8.18.1 / 10 - The Labyrinth Index
7.97.9 / 10 - Dead Lies DreamingThis book
7.97.9 / 10 - Quantum of Nightmares
–Not ranked yet - Season of Skulls
–Not ranked yet - A Conventional BoyA Conventional Boy–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 70 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 32% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 70 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dead Lies Dreaming?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 82% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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