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My next book, "A Conventional Boy" (coming January 7th) is all about the consequences of the Satanic D&D Panic … in a world where Lovecraft's elder gods are real. (Also: what-if Laundry but also LitRPG/progression fantasy?)

There's an afterword to provide the historic context if you don't remember playing D&D in the 80s and being shit-scared of the evangelical loons coming for you.

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A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel by Charles Stross
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Cool; I’ll buy it as soon as the Kobo I’m ordering to replace my Turd Reich-compromised Kindle arrives.
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Alexandra Lanes
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@Charlie Stross Am I stretching or is the title a riff on Vikram Seth?
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Charlie Stross
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No (I've never read Vikran Seth). It's a pun on the plot.
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Unfortunately, far too few of your books are released in german language!
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Charlie Stross
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@nilz Most of my German audience read them in English. My German publisher gave up—their core market are older, less-educated folks who want traditional space opera. (Think Perry Rhodan.)
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Did the UK see much of that? (the Satanic Panic, I mean, not the Elder Gods). I figured it was mostly a North American thing.
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Michael Sipior
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Thank you for the (admittedly disturbing) pointer. Were D&D players ever harassed by the British variant of religious fruitcake?
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Charlie Stross
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@sipior The "British variant of religious fruitcake" who were involved in the Satanic panic were offshoots of American evangelical groups. Luckily the UK is vastly less religious than the USA (and Scotland far less so than Englandshire—England skews more religious because London has a huge immigrant population, mainly from more religious countries).
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...Oh, I am going to have to read that. (I was rather into RPGs in the 80s, and beyond. Some of my favorite reading is RPG books, with the exploration of ideas and how to emulate them in the mind, really.....)
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This is going to be fascinating!

I remember being totally blindsided by a parental inquisition about whether I, a 12yo RPG nerd, was summoning demons. Because D&D. And those parents weren't even religious types at all but still caught a mild dose of the brain worms through cultural osmosis of some kind.

Ofc I _was_ summoning demons. But that was entirely distinct from the roleplaying games!

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