A Conventional Boy

A Conventional Boy

by Charles Stross
A Conventional Boy

A Conventional Boy

by Charles Stross

Hardcover

$28.99 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
    Available for Pre-Order. This item will be released on January 7, 2025
  • PICK UP IN STORE

    Store Pickup available after publication date.

Related collections and offers


Overview

In this new Laundry Files adventure the fate of the world will literally depend on the roll of dice... twenty-sided dice, that is.

In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teenage dungeon master growing up in middle England. But then a secret government agency tasked with suppressing magical intrusions received a tip-off – and one midnight raid later, his life was turned upside down by the Satanic D&D Panic.

Decades later Derek, now middle-aged and institutionalized, is a long-term inmate at Camp Sunshine, a center for deprogramming captured Elder God cultists. He’s considered safe enough to edit the camp newsletter, and he even has postal privileges – which he uses to run a play-by-mail game. After 25 years, Derek finally has reason to escape: a nearby D&D convention. While Derek’s D&D games were full of fictional elder gods and world-ending threats, a LARP game at the con is a dread ritual designed to summon a great evil into our world, and it’s up to Derek and his players to stop them.

The fate of the world may depend on the contents of Derek’s magic dice bag.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250357847
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/07/2025
Series: Laundry Files Series , #13
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 779,159
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

CHARLES STROSS is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry Files series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn’s Children. He has won three Hugo Awards, including one for the Laundry Files novella Equoid, published on Tor.com. Born and raised in Leeds, England, he lives with his spouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews