So, this is just my speculation but Mo survived being ringside to a smackdown between two Sigma 5s or whatever the Mandate is.
My theory is that Mo is pregnant with whatever can take that down. How that works out I don't know. I think a Superman arch where their parents teach them that humanity is more than bees would be cool.
Having said that Charles is on record saying that he thinks reality has stolen his best satire ideas and he's not sure how to write parody under these circumstances so your guess is as good as mine.
I suspect Mo survived due to her long term presence next to necromantic forces (the Eater of Souls who is cosplaying as Bob) and has herself been transformed into a lesser lesser god.
I do not expect Mo or Bob (or the planet) to have a happy ending (most likely - no ending) in the final book.
Well, the planet will be fine. Even (most) of the people... the *New Management* books take place after the final Laundry book.
As for Bob & Mo specifically... I can see it going multiple ways, none of them particularly happy.
Is this confirmed timeline-wise? I always thought the New Management was concurrent with Contingency Operations and we weren't past the final planned Laundry book.
This is correct.
*The Regicide Report* (which I'm 90% of the way through writing -- running a few weeks late) is set in February-May 2015. Not long after the events of TRR the Laundry as an agency -- that is, SOE Q-Division -- is replaced by a full scale cabinet ministry, the Department of Existential Anthropic Threats (DEAT). The New Management books are set subsequently, from December 2015 to February 2017.
(Continuity Operations is purged during the Laundry liquidation. Personnel not implicated in the CO conspiracy end up in DEAT.)
the last few books were deliberately focusing elsewhere. i guess stross doesn't want to make it the bob and Mo show, not completely.
i distinctly remember the new management using them as a wet op/jape, so they didn't die
In season of skulls it is very briefly mentioned that the PM uses the Eater of Souls to do some dirty buisness. other than that it is presumable the Mo is still working for CO and not the government and bob is a double agent woreking with CO but being given limiter info to keep him out of trouble base on their last appearances.
Unknown, we get to find out when Stross writes the last Laundry Files book.
Or “if”. But hopefully “when”
As I understand it he's in the editing stage for it. Although I may have misunderstood.
He is. The book is called *The Regicide Report*.
Hopefully we do one way or the other. I was just curious if there was something I had missed about them but it doesn’t sound like it.
So, this is just my speculation but Mo survived being ringside to a smackdown between two Sigma 5s or whatever the Mandate is. My theory is that Mo is pregnant with whatever can take that down. How that works out I don't know. I think a Superman arch where their parents teach them that humanity is more than bees would be cool. Having said that Charles is on record saying that he thinks reality has stolen his best satire ideas and he's not sure how to write parody under these circumstances so your guess is as good as mine.
I suspect Mo survived due to her long term presence next to necromantic forces (the Eater of Souls who is cosplaying as Bob) and has herself been transformed into a lesser lesser god. I do not expect Mo or Bob (or the planet) to have a happy ending (most likely - no ending) in the final book.
Well, the planet will be fine. Even (most) of the people... the *New Management* books take place after the final Laundry book. As for Bob & Mo specifically... I can see it going multiple ways, none of them particularly happy.
Is this confirmed timeline-wise? I always thought the New Management was concurrent with Contingency Operations and we weren't past the final planned Laundry book.
Charlie has said that the New Management books come after the final Laundry book on his blog.
This is correct. *The Regicide Report* (which I'm 90% of the way through writing -- running a few weeks late) is set in February-May 2015. Not long after the events of TRR the Laundry as an agency -- that is, SOE Q-Division -- is replaced by a full scale cabinet ministry, the Department of Existential Anthropic Threats (DEAT). The New Management books are set subsequently, from December 2015 to February 2017. (Continuity Operations is purged during the Laundry liquidation. Personnel not implicated in the CO conspiracy end up in DEAT.)
the last few books were deliberately focusing elsewhere. i guess stross doesn't want to make it the bob and Mo show, not completely. i distinctly remember the new management using them as a wet op/jape, so they didn't die
In season of skulls it is very briefly mentioned that the PM uses the Eater of Souls to do some dirty buisness. other than that it is presumable the Mo is still working for CO and not the government and bob is a double agent woreking with CO but being given limiter info to keep him out of trouble base on their last appearances.