#PennedPossibilities 151. What is your MC’s relationship to what modern society considers the paranormal or supernatural?
Laundry Files: Bob is an applied computational demonologist and sorcerer working for the branch of the British Government dealing with things that go bump in the night—including, embarrassingly, the Prime Minister.
Authority universe (WIP): there is no supernatural, but fanatics believe in the AI Singularity, the holy mind-uploading afterlife to come, and similar nonsense.
Charlie Stross
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