Books with author Charles Streams

Can a rogue be a hero?Dagdron was raised as a rogue, his dagger his only companion and pickpocketing his favorite pastime. But when his father forces him to attend the Adventurers’ Academy, where warriors, enchanters, and rogues learn how to fulfill quests to become heroes, Dagdron must face a whole new life. When Dagdron is accused of stealing the Arch of Avooblis, he and his ever-honorable roommate, Earl, embark on a quest to recover the magical crystal. Along the way they must deal with the mysterious Headmaster Gwauldron, a snobby princess-enchantress, and the fact that their involvement with the Arch of Avooblis may very well cost them their lives.Book 1 in the Adventurers' Academy Series

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Dagdron, Earl, Elloriana, and Lita have set out on their own to fulfill their first quests, but the threat of Avooblis still looms large over the land. As the four adventurers use their unique skills to assist their respective quest cities, they soon find that Mazannanan’s reach extends much farther than they expected. In addition to an obsessed mayor, arguing barons, a devilish familiar, and an annoying village girl, who won’t stop talking, they must battle to stop the Minions of Avooblis. With the help and hindrance of friends and enemies from the Adventurers’ Academy, each of the adventurers is put to the test as they realize that if they fail in their quests, their hopes of ever becoming heroes may come to a nightmarish end because the entire land may be on the brink of ruin if Avooblis is released from Wendahl’s net.

Dagdron Obor and Earl Valorington have moved on from the Arches of Avooblis, and Earl has big plans to spend the summer preparing for their third and final year at the Adventurers’ Academy. But then Dagdron’s dad disappears, the sinister and powerful Backer attacks them, and Wendahl gives them a quest to rescue Dagdron’s mom from Avooblis. Dagdron and Earl join with their academy companions, Elloriana Loftloomburg and Lita Valk, to search out Mazannanan’s secret treasure all while trying to stay off the radar of Headmaster Gwauldron and uncover the identity of the Backer. Along the way they realize that a traitor may very well be among them and that they might not survive to become full-fledged adventurers after all.Book 3 in the Adventurers' Academy Series.

All Dagdron wanted was to spend a solitary summer in Cliffmount, far away from the Adventurers’ Academy. But when a handful of surprise visitors show up, he and Earl Valorington are sent running for their lives. During their travels, a quirky farmer-enchanter gives them a magical sphere, which guides them to the Shrine of Avooblis, the home of an ancient wizard. In exchange for information about the Arches of Avooblis, Dagdron and Earl embark on a quest, but soon find that uncovering the past may unleash undesirable consequences for the future.Book 2 in the Adventurers' Academy Series

The skeleton walkers are loose in the land, Wendahl has gone missing, and the threat of Avooblis breaking free grows stronger every day. As adventurers, Dagdron and Earl set out to face the dangers on a quest to discover the dark past of Mazannanan’s clan and the secrets surrounding an ancient cistern. Elloriana and Lita embark on their own adventure, which leads them along the hidden path to uncover Wendahl’s mysterious past. As the adventurers delve deeper and deeper into an understanding of what Mazannanan has in store for the land with Avooblis’s power, their quest appears more and more hopeless. But as they come together as rogue, warrior, enchantress, and lady warrior, they realize they just might have a chance to prevent their eyes from being plucked from the sockets and stop evil from spreading across the entire land.

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity.For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...

*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL CATEGORY*“Smart, literate, funny.” —Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Someone is dead set to air the spy agency’s dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross’ Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!Bob Howard’s career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic, and combat with indescribably repellent creatures of pure evil. It has also involved a wearying amount of paperwork and office politics, and his expense reports are still a mess. Now, following the invasion of Yorkshire by the Host of Air and Darkness, the Laundry’s existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions about elven asylum seekers. What neither Bob nor his managers have foreseen is that their organization has earned the attention of a horror far more terrifying than any demon: a British government looking for public services to privatize. Inch by inch, Bob Howard and his managers are forced to consider the truly unthinkable: a coup against the British government itself.Laundry Files1. The Atrocity Archives2. The Jennifer Morgue3. The Fuller Memorandum4. The Apocalypse Codex5. The Rhesus Chart6. The Annihilation Score7. The Nightmare StacksAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series. Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Charles Stross takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deighton—style espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror.Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic.But somehow, he is...

All Dagdron wanted was to spend a solitary summer in Cliffmount, far away from the Adventurers’ Academy. But when a handful of surprise visitors show up, he and Earl Valorington are sent running for their lives. During their travels, a quirky farmer-enchanter gives them a magical sphere, which guides them to the Shrine of Avooblis, the home of an ancient wizard. In exchange for information about the Arches of Avooblis, Dagdron and Earl embark on a quest, but soon find that uncovering the past may unleash undesirable consequences for the future.