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3 unusual facts about The Jennifer Morgue


Bastard Operator From Hell

The BOFH stories are alluded to in the Laundry Series by Charles Stross, featuring main character Bob Oliver Francis Howard (a system administrator) and, in "Pimpf" in The Jennifer Morgue, his intern Peter-Fred Young.

Pimpf

Pimpf, a short story by Charles Stross in his 2006 story collection The Jennifer Morgue

The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.



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The Fuller Memorandum

Where The Atrocity Archives was written in the idiom of Len Deighton and The Jennifer Morgue was a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, The Fuller Memorandum is a homage of sorts to Anthony Price's Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series of spy thrillers, and features two minor characters named Roskill and Panin, names which appeared as recurring characters in Price's series.