Stross has done better work since. I don't love his doctrinaire interpretation of Lovecraftian tropes, but the Laundry series still reads well, and he does mana

Stross has done better work since. I don't love his doctrinaire interpretation of Lovecraftian tropes, but the Laundry series still reads well, and he does manage later on to go some less well trod places with it. Skip "Equoid".