Comments on: Ian Tregillis in conversation with Charlie Stross on The Laundry Files http://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/02/08/ian-tregillis-in-conversation-with-charlie-stross-on-the-laundry-series/ Orbit Books Thu, 16 May 2013 05:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ian http://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/02/08/ian-tregillis-in-conversation-with-charlie-stross-on-the-laundry-series/#comment-41340 Ian Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:15:50 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=32788#comment-41340 For me as a reader, the thing that makes Declare such an effective “ambassador to the subgenre,” if there could be such a thing, is that in addition to featuring the usual delicious Tim Powers para-historical weirdness, it’s superbly executed as an homage to the John le Carre-style espionage procedural. So (again, for me personally) it’s a near-perfect blend of the occult (which Powers does without equal) and the spy thriller (of which le Carre is one of the masters).

]]> By: Paul (@princejvstin) http://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/02/08/ian-tregillis-in-conversation-with-charlie-stross-on-the-laundry-series/#comment-41281 Paul (@princejvstin) Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:54:20 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=32788#comment-41281 I do think we are at the point of this being a subgenre now.

Was Declare by Tim Powers the ur-example of the modern form, I wonder?

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