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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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@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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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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