Posts tagged "lovecraft"
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The Laundry Files series describes a setting where enough computation and the wrong algorithms produce magic, where humanity is inevitably doomed by the impending Lovecraftian apocalypse from Moore's Law and population growth. Secret occult intelligence agencies try and forestall this as best they can, with their signature equipment including smartphones with apps installed for warding, exorcism, disguise, and geases.
One fic idea that came to mind from reading the series was of somebody else, like a date rapist or phone repair tech who routinely clones phones for blackmail material, getting their hands on one of those devices and kicking off a hypno app story.
The first part would cover them getting the device and their initial experiments with it, and an amoral pursuit of sex and money…