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** Speaking of Persephone, she and Johnny are a walking shout-out to ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise and Wille Garvin, to the point where Persephone's codename is '''BASHFUL INCENDIARY'''.
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* One of the section titles in ''The Annihilation Score'' is "Good heavens Miss Sakomoto, you're beautiful!", part of the lyrics to the Music/ThomasDolby song "She Blinded Me With Science". Charlie is also a fan of throwing in song lyrics into the text, from Gary Numan to Front 242, in both this and his other series. If you share his taste for electronic and industrial music, there are a lot of little references.
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* One of the section titles in ''The Annihilation Score'' is "Good heavens Miss Sakomoto, you're beautiful!", part of the lyrics to the Music/ThomasDolby song "She Blinded Me With Science". Charlie is also a fan of throwing in song lyrics into the text, from Gary Numan to Front 242, in both this and his other series. If you share his taste for electronic and industrial music, there are a lot of little references. For example, the third act of ‘’The Nightmare’’ stacks is simply titled ‘’Maneuvers In The Dark…
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* Also in ''The Rhesus Chart'', Bob describes discovering 12 cases of "Krantzberg Syndrome" as the first step before getting into Film/TwelveMonkeys... Film/TwentyEightDaysLater... [[Literature/TheStand Captain Trips]] territory.
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** There are references ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' as well. Not to mention shoutouts to ''Videogame/DeusEx'', ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'', and of course the Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell.
* ''The Fuller Memorandum'' also features a note from the Laundry's founder to a friend in Naval Intelligence with the [[Creator/IanFleming codename "17F"]].
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* Alex takes a date to see ''Film/OnlyLoversLeftAlive''.
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* [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."]] "Three times is enemy action" has been used frequently.
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* [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]] jokes about sending people to Literature/TheHungerGames after balking at the senseless slaughter of the FinalSolution when he talks about wanting to solve the Jewish problem (by which he actually means the Abrahamic religion problem, and [[PragmaticVillainy that's because]] they're not worshiping ''him'').
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Creator/CharlesStross's ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' is full of geeky references.
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* ''Lots'' to Creator/HPLovecraft
* Those Two Techy Guys are nicknamed [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky and Brains]].
* ''The Jennifer Morgue'' is a WholePlotReference to Film/JamesBond.
* When a {{Mook}} picks up Bob's enchanted iPhone, he is on the receiving end of a nasty curse that turns him briefly into a dancing black silhouette (such as in iPod advertising) before killing him.
* Bob Howard, named after Creator/RobertEHoward, collaborator and friend of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.
* Bob also has a pair of middle names, Oliver & Francis, making his initials [[Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell BOFH]].
** And the intern he acquires in Pimpf is named Peter-Fred Young, and is indeed a pimply-faced youth.
** This is referenced in the ''God Game Black'' RPG sourcebook, where it's mentioned that [[AC:Bastard Operator]] is ''not'' actually Bob's codename, no matter how much he wishes that it were. Also Subverted in that Bob Oliver Francis Howard is very much not his TrueName and may actually be his codename.
* Known ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fan Stross equips Bob with a thaumometer in ''The Atrocity Archive''. There's another joke there about being locked in the library by an orangutang if Mo stayed too late. Dungeon Dimensions also are mentioned. A Sergeant Colon makes a brief appearance in ''Equoid''. (His fellow officers include [[Series/NotTheNineOClockNews Constable Savage]] and PC [=McGarry=] from ''WesternAnimation/CamberwickGreen'').
* "Pimpf" verges on ReferenceOverdosed:
** The setup for the story is that Bob has created a persistent world using the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' Toolset as a trap/recruiting tool for {{game mod}}ders with the skills to accidentally or on purpose summon {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with their mods (much as he himself was recruited for almost summoning Nyarlathotep with a fractal algorithm he was developing). Qualifies as a MythologyGag as well: besides his literary pursuits, Charles Stross is the inventor of several iconic ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' monsters, including the slaadi, githyanki, and githzerai.
** There are references ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' as well. Not to mention shoutouts to ''Videogame/DeusEx'', ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'', and of course the Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell.
* ''The Fuller Memorandum'' also features a note from the Laundry's founder to a friend in Naval Intelligence with the [[Creator/IanFleming codename "17F"]].
* ''The Fuller Memorandum'' additionally has Bob idly reading a novel about [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles a private magician for hire in Chicago]]. A later vampire-related case is named [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles DRESDEN]] [[Creator/AnneRice RICE]]. In ''The Annihilation Score'' Mo believes that she's narrowly avoided a 'soulgaze' with [[spoiler:Ramona]].
* This remark in ''The Atrocity Archive'' when Bob is giving an overview of computational demonology:
--> This has several consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: ''[[VideoGame/ZeroWing all your bank account are belong to us]]'' ...
* The trip through the titular Atrocity Archive includes a glimpse of a rack-like machine full of glass needles - likely the execution device from Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," itself a story about a murderous tradition carried out by authoritarian bastards with occult delusions.
* The name of the badass Scottish soldier-of-fortune who accompanies Persephone, and who has killed opponents with throwing knives? [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Johnny McTavish]].
* ''The Jennifer Morgue'' has Bob going on at length about the weird practices of the Black Chamber and American occult intelligence, saying that "[[Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats staring at goats]] is the least of it."
* [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."]] "Three times is enemy action" has been used frequently.
* Angleton is a ShoutOut to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jesus_Angleton James Jesus Angleton]], head of counter-intelligence for the CIA from 1954 to 1975 and generally remembered as a very strange man. (One particularly wild conspiracy theory had it that he [[WhoShotJFK personally ordered the murder of John F. Kennedy]] because he thought Kennedy was a Soviet mole.) By the way, this has the result of making it a seriously surreal experience to read the real-life Angleton's Wikipedia page shortly after reading the ''Laundry'' books. Try it.
* "Equoid", in which Bob investigates a farm in Sussex, has numerous shout-outs to ''Literature/ColdComfortFarm'', culminating with Bob seeing something nasty in the woodshed.
* To ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' in ''The Fuller Memorandum''. Mo's remarks on Bob's purchase of an iPhone:
--> "Bob loses saving throw versus ''shiny'' at -5 penalty, takes 3d8 damage to the credit card."
* The senior auditor has [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla polished his glasses with his tie.]]
* ''The Rhesus Chart'' makes a passing reference to This Very Wiki:
--> Alex spent much of the day with his smartphone, doing what research he could: mainly reading the Wikipedia and TV Tropes articles on vampires...
* One of the section titles in ''The Annihilation Score'' is "Good heavens Miss Sakomoto, you're beautiful!", part of the lyrics to the Music/ThomasDolby song "She Blinded Me With Science".
* After a description of how government agencies exist first to make sure the agency stays existent, Mo partially quotes Creator/LarryNiven, with "Just another example of evolution in action".
* In ''The Nightmare Stacks'', Alex's father quotes Creator/MontyPython after being told that Brains is working on a hovercraft. "My hovercraft is full of eels." (The original quote, not the [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels trope]].)
* Creator/MontyPython is also referenced in ''The Labyrinth Index'' to show that [[spoiler:the Black Chamber]] lacks the legitimacy unlike [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]] partly because they "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail were not handed any magic swords by watery tarts]]".
* [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]] jokes about sending people to Literature/TheHungerGames after balking at the senseless slaughter of the FinalSolution when he talks about wanting to solve the Jewish problem (by which he actually means the Abrahamic religion problem, and [[PragmaticVillainy that's because]] they're not worshiping ''him'').
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* ''Lots'' to Creator/HPLovecraft
* Those Two Techy Guys are nicknamed [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain Pinky and Brains]].
* ''The Jennifer Morgue'' is a WholePlotReference to Film/JamesBond.
* When a {{Mook}} picks up Bob's enchanted iPhone, he is on the receiving end of a nasty curse that turns him briefly into a dancing black silhouette (such as in iPod advertising) before killing him.
* Bob Howard, named after Creator/RobertEHoward, collaborator and friend of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.
* Bob also has a pair of middle names, Oliver & Francis, making his initials [[Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell BOFH]].
** And the intern he acquires in Pimpf is named Peter-Fred Young, and is indeed a pimply-faced youth.
** This is referenced in the ''God Game Black'' RPG sourcebook, where it's mentioned that [[AC:Bastard Operator]] is ''not'' actually Bob's codename, no matter how much he wishes that it were. Also Subverted in that Bob Oliver Francis Howard is very much not his TrueName and may actually be his codename.
* Known ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fan Stross equips Bob with a thaumometer in ''The Atrocity Archive''. There's another joke there about being locked in the library by an orangutang if Mo stayed too late. Dungeon Dimensions also are mentioned. A Sergeant Colon makes a brief appearance in ''Equoid''. (His fellow officers include [[Series/NotTheNineOClockNews Constable Savage]] and PC [=McGarry=] from ''WesternAnimation/CamberwickGreen'').
* "Pimpf" verges on ReferenceOverdosed:
** The setup for the story is that Bob has created a persistent world using the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' Toolset as a trap/recruiting tool for {{game mod}}ders with the skills to accidentally or on purpose summon {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with their mods (much as he himself was recruited for almost summoning Nyarlathotep with a fractal algorithm he was developing). Qualifies as a MythologyGag as well: besides his literary pursuits, Charles Stross is the inventor of several iconic ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' monsters, including the slaadi, githyanki, and githzerai.
** There are references ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' as well. Not to mention shoutouts to ''Videogame/DeusEx'', ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'', and of course the Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell.
* ''The Fuller Memorandum'' also features a note from the Laundry's founder to a friend in Naval Intelligence with the [[Creator/IanFleming codename "17F"]].
* ''The Fuller Memorandum'' additionally has Bob idly reading a novel about [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles a private magician for hire in Chicago]]. A later vampire-related case is named [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles DRESDEN]] [[Creator/AnneRice RICE]]. In ''The Annihilation Score'' Mo believes that she's narrowly avoided a 'soulgaze' with [[spoiler:Ramona]].
* This remark in ''The Atrocity Archive'' when Bob is giving an overview of computational demonology:
--> This has several consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: ''[[VideoGame/ZeroWing all your bank account are belong to us]]'' ...
* The trip through the titular Atrocity Archive includes a glimpse of a rack-like machine full of glass needles - likely the execution device from Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," itself a story about a murderous tradition carried out by authoritarian bastards with occult delusions.
* The name of the badass Scottish soldier-of-fortune who accompanies Persephone, and who has killed opponents with throwing knives? [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Johnny McTavish]].
* ''The Jennifer Morgue'' has Bob going on at length about the weird practices of the Black Chamber and American occult intelligence, saying that "[[Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats staring at goats]] is the least of it."
* [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."]] "Three times is enemy action" has been used frequently.
* Angleton is a ShoutOut to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jesus_Angleton James Jesus Angleton]], head of counter-intelligence for the CIA from 1954 to 1975 and generally remembered as a very strange man. (One particularly wild conspiracy theory had it that he [[WhoShotJFK personally ordered the murder of John F. Kennedy]] because he thought Kennedy was a Soviet mole.) By the way, this has the result of making it a seriously surreal experience to read the real-life Angleton's Wikipedia page shortly after reading the ''Laundry'' books. Try it.
* "Equoid", in which Bob investigates a farm in Sussex, has numerous shout-outs to ''Literature/ColdComfortFarm'', culminating with Bob seeing something nasty in the woodshed.
* To ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' in ''The Fuller Memorandum''. Mo's remarks on Bob's purchase of an iPhone:
--> "Bob loses saving throw versus ''shiny'' at -5 penalty, takes 3d8 damage to the credit card."
* The senior auditor has [[Literature/TheQuestForKarla polished his glasses with his tie.]]
* ''The Rhesus Chart'' makes a passing reference to This Very Wiki:
--> Alex spent much of the day with his smartphone, doing what research he could: mainly reading the Wikipedia and TV Tropes articles on vampires...
* One of the section titles in ''The Annihilation Score'' is "Good heavens Miss Sakomoto, you're beautiful!", part of the lyrics to the Music/ThomasDolby song "She Blinded Me With Science".
* After a description of how government agencies exist first to make sure the agency stays existent, Mo partially quotes Creator/LarryNiven, with "Just another example of evolution in action".
* In ''The Nightmare Stacks'', Alex's father quotes Creator/MontyPython after being told that Brains is working on a hovercraft. "My hovercraft is full of eels." (The original quote, not the [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels trope]].)
* Creator/MontyPython is also referenced in ''The Labyrinth Index'' to show that [[spoiler:the Black Chamber]] lacks the legitimacy unlike [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]] partly because they "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail were not handed any magic swords by watery tarts]]".
* [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]] jokes about sending people to Literature/TheHungerGames after balking at the senseless slaughter of the FinalSolution when he talks about wanting to solve the Jewish problem (by which he actually means the Abrahamic religion problem, and [[PragmaticVillainy that's because]] they're not worshiping ''him'').
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