Title: The Atrocity Archive

Title: The Atrocity Archive Title Record # 23803
Author: Charles Stross
Date: 2001-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Laundry Files
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Originally serialised in Spectrum SF numbers 7-9.

Synopsis: In a world where magic has been transformed into a reliable technology by application of advanced mathematics and is closely restricted by classified bureaus of the world's governments, an IT support worker for the British service is assigned to a minor field assignment, only to become embroiled in a fight against creatures from a parallel universe who wish to consume ours.

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Other Titles

Translations

Serializations

Year	Language	Title
2004^ⓘTranslated by Bernard Sigaud	French	Les archives de l'atrocité^?Les archives de l'atrocite
2007^ⓘTranslated by Mechthild Barth	German	Dämonentor: Die mysteriösen Fälle des Bob Howard
2016^ⓘTranslated by Елена Павлова (Elena Pavlova)	Bulgarian	Архиви на злото^?Arhivi na zloto [as by Чарлс Строс^?Charls Stros ]
2017^ⓘTranslated by Blanca Rodríguez	Spanish	El archivo de atrocidades

Year	Title
2001	The Atrocity Archive (Part 1 of 3)
2002	The Atrocity Archive (Part 2 of 3)
2002	The Atrocity Archive (Part 3 of 3)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
5	2003 Locus	Best First Novel
3 (as El archivo de atrocidades)	2018 Premio Ignotus	Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Spectrum SF, #7 November	2001-11-00	ed. Paul Fraser	Spectrum Publishing		£3.99^?£: UK pound	192	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag	Fred Gambino
Spectrum SF, #8 May	2002-05-00	ed. Paul Fraser	Spectrum Publishing		£3.99^?£: UK pound	192	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag	David A. Hardy
Spectrum SF, #9 November	2002-11-00	ed. Paul Fraser	Spectrum Publishing		£3.99^?£: UK pound	192	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag	Dominic Harman
The Atrocity Archives	2004-05-00	Charles Stross	Golden Gryphon Press (Golden Gryphon #33)	1-930846-25-8	$24.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 273	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Steve Montiglio
The Atrocity Archives	2006-01-00	Charles Stross	Ace Books	0-441-01365-1	$14.00^?$: US dollar	xix+ 345	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Mark Fredrickson
The Atrocity Archives	2006-01-00	Charles Stross	Ace Books	978-0-7865-9949-3	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni	Mark Fredrickson
The Atrocity Archives	2007-00-00	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-1-84149-569-9	£6.99^?£: UK pound	xv+ 319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni
On Her Majesty's Occult Service	2007-03-00	Charles Stross	Science Fiction Book Club	0-7394-8112-6	$14.99^?$: US dollar	562	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	John Picacio
The Atrocity Archives	2007-06-00	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-1-84149-569-9	£6.99^?£: UK pound	xv+ 319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni
The Atrocity Archives	2009-01-00	Charles Stross	Ace Books	978-0-441-01668-6	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xx+ 345	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Mark Fredrickson
The Atrocity Archives	2010-00-00	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-1-84149-569-9	£7.99^?£: UK pound	xv+ 319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni
The Atrocity Archives	2010-11-04	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-0-7481-2413-8	£5.49^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
The Atrocity Archives	2011-00-00	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-1-84149-569-9	£7.99^?£: UK pound	xv+ 319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni
The Atrocity Archives	2012-00-00	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-1-84149-569-9	£7.99^?£: UK pound	xv+ 319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni
The Atrocity Archives	2013-07-02	Charles Stross	Orbit	978-0-356-50239-7	£7.99^?£: UK pound	352	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni
The Atrocity Archives	date unknown	Charles Stross	Ace Books	978-0-441-01668-6	$7.99^?$: US dollar	[xx]+ 345	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Mark Fredrickson
The Atrocity Archives	date unknown	Charles Stross	Ace Books	978-1-101-20884-7	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni	Mark Fredrickson
The Atrocity Archives	date unknown	Charles Stross	Ace Books	978-0-441-01668-6	$7.99^?$: US dollar	[xx]+ 345	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Mark Fredrickson
The Atrocity Archives	date unknown	Charles Stross	Ace Books	978-0-441-01668-6	$7.99^?$: US dollar	[xx]+ 345	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Mark Fredrickson

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Reviews

Review by Nick Gevers (2002) in Locus, #499 August 2002
Review by Steven Sawicki [as by Steve Sawicki] (2002) in Chronicle, #229 October 2002
Review by Jim Mann (2003) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 2003
Review [French] by Tom Clegg (2004) in Galaxies, #35