OK, have hit that bit in the current WIP (the last Laundry Files novel) where someone shrieks "Fools! I will destroy you all! Ask me how! Go on, I dare you!" at Bob, and it isn't even Wednesday.
Backing away from the keyboard to contemplate this work of Very Stable Genius for a few minutes.
@cstross I've just finished Quantum of Nightmares - enjoyed it very much (thank you!), but it left me wondering (especially if you're writing the final one!), how long CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN lasts and what happens when it does? I remember it being some sort of celestial alignment, but are we talking planetary (days, presumably if you assume effects lasting until next time around then through to years) stellar (decades to centuries?) or galactic (centuries to millennia?)? Does the Black Pharaoh vanish again and the government go back to the more conventional and banal evil of the Tories?
Could just hand-wave and say galactic so there's no need to think about what comes after, but you'd also assume for a longer-lasting alignment it'd be nearly there for (much) longer, so the effects would come on very gradually.
Basically, I'm wondering do Bob and Mo get to retire once CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN is over, or if it'll even *be* over in their lifetimes. ;-)
