Charlie Stross on Nostr: So, working on a Laundry novel yesterday I was crawling over the scrivener files from ...
So, working on a Laundry novel yesterday I was crawling over the scrivener files from an earlier one and stumbled on a really promising codename for something ghastly that fits perfectly in the new one—a grisly contigency plan called FORLORN AVALON—only to discover that it never made it into the final as-published novel because fuck how was I to know in 2008 that the 2024 climax to the series would absolutely have to involve Gashadokuro King Arthur?
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