The Laundry Files
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The Laundry Files
Charles Stross
6 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2015–2025.
What people on Hacker News said
The Laundry Files is strongly and deliberately in the middle ground of technology and magic, despite being ostensibly set in the present-day.
For me the blurring of religion/biology/code boundaries was brilliantly interesting (even if factually unconvincing).
It has some similar "Enochian" language used for programming zombies / magic / etc. (the tone is quite different though, more of a horror comedy, and varies between books as he's parodying different material.)
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