{"id":25710,"date":"2025-12-24T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25710"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:45:35","slug":"library-addition-three-charles-stross-laundry-files-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25710","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Three Charles Stross Laundry Files Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three Charles Stross &#8220;Laundry Files&#8221; I found at a Half Price Books in the DFW area.<\/p>\n<li>Stross, Charles. <b>A Conventional Boy<\/b>. Tor, 2025. First edition hardback (ISFDB states that the UK and U.S. editions came out the same day), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. For some reason I&#8217;m not finding the Half Price Books receipt for all three of these books, but I believe they were each around $9.99.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Conventional-Boy-666x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"692\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Conventional-Boy-666x1024.png 666w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Conventional-Boy-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Conventional-Boy-768x1180.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Conventional-Boy-999x1536.png 999w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Conventional-Boy.png 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Stross, Charles. <b>Dead Lies Dreaming<\/b>. Tor, 2020. First edition hardback (ISFDB states that the U.S. edition came out two days before the UK edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Dead-Lies-Dreaming-666x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"692\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Dead-Lies-Dreaming-666x1024.png 666w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Dead-Lies-Dreaming-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Dead-Lies-Dreaming-768x1182.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Dead-Lies-Dreaming-998x1536.png 998w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Dead-Lies-Dreaming.png 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Stross, Charles. <b>The Labyrinth Index<\/b>. Tor, 2018. First edition hardback (ISFDB states that the UK and U.S. editions came out the same day), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Labyrinth-Index-667x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Labyrinth-Index-667x1024.png 667w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Labyrinth-Index-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Labyrinth-Index-768x1179.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Labyrinth-Index-1000x1536.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stross-Labyrinth-Index.png 1109w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three Charles Stross &#8220;Laundry Files&#8221; I found at a Half Price Books in the DFW area. Stross, Charles. A Conventional Boy. Tor, 2025. First edition hardback (ISFDB states that the UK and U.S. editions came out the same day), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. For some reason I&#8217;m not finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,5],"tags":[1973,227,22,1949,1979,1970],"class_list":["post-25710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-charles-stross","tag-cthulhu","tag-half-price-books","tag-horror","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25734,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25710\/revisions\/25734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}