Reddit reviews The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1)
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At risk of self-advertising: the first book in the series, "The Atrocity Archives", is currently on special offer in the USA and Canada for $1.99 as an ebook — Amazon Kindle link here, but it's also cheap on iBooks and Nook right now. (Price will go back up to $7.99 at the end of next week.)
This is to promote the cheapification(?) of book seven, "The Nightmare Stacks" (ebook price just dropped from $13.99 to $7.99 at the beginning of the month) and the oncoming publication of book eight, "The Delirium Brief" (due out in July, will cost $13.99 for the first 9-12 months — if that's too much for you, the price will come down if you wait long enough).
I don't look actively for rationalist themes in books, so take this as 'books that someone who likes hpmor also likes', and don't spend too much blindly. I do like characters that are at least not obviously stupid, and if the idiot ball is too blatant I will notice, so perhaps at least some level of interest is warranted.
It's all fairly mainstream and recent SF/F.
So hopefully you read the Night Watch / Day Watch / Twilight Watch books? There's supposedly two more books out there in the series now, Last Watch and New Watch, which I haven't read.
The Markhat series by Frank Tuttle is brilliant fun.
9 Goblins is short but totally worth it. by T. A. Kingfisher
The Night Circus is a whimsical book full of beautiful things, tends to be a bit melancholy.
Most things by Elizabeth Bear are worth reading, as are most things by Connie Willis.
Charlie Stross' Laundry Files are excellent fun with the single, sole, sad exception of the second book which I hated but which other people loved.
The Enterprise of Death is - well. Um, let's just say the woodcut engraving on the cover? Not a metaphor in this book. Does not pull punches.I found it more horrific than a dozen other books labeled specifically as horror, but also more brilliant and more beautiful.
If you haven't got around to reading Ben Aaronovitch's stuff you're in for some good London fun. He's an excellent writer.
The Felix Castor series by Mike Carey is brilliant too.
Charles Stross' The Laundry Files should scratch this itch. It starts with The Atrocity Archives and is currently up to 9 books. A great kind of Cthulu tale that focuses more on the idea that the universe works in a way you don't want to know about, rather than just "weirdness and crazy people" that too many Lovecraft imitators focus on.
Sadly the second book is the worst in the entire series, but if you want to skip over that one, the entire rest is some brilliant work.
The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross, beginning with The Atrocity Archives.
Nexus by Ramez Naam.
Lexicon by Max Berry.
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley.
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.
The Laundry Files series
Modern day Lovecraftian horrors, secret agents, government agencies, science, occult, etc. Written by one of my favorite sci-fi authors, Charles Stross.
The Laundry(UK) and The Black Chamber(USA) are two government agencies tasked with covering up, containing, or eliminating Lovecraftian horrors. I'm just finishing the first book, and I love it.
Someone wrote a long story on 4chan called "Stranded in Fantasy". A group of people from our world get pulled into a D&D-style fantasy world and try to survive.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Stranded_in_fantasy
And this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but check out "The Atrocity Archives". It's a combination of Lovecraft-style horror and Dilbert-style bureaucracy.
The Lord Darcy series was started in the '60s so you're looking for dead tree editions.
Start your search here (googl link because reddit hates parentheses).
The Atrocity Archives is Charlie Stross's Laundry series.
For all your computational necromancy needs.