Charlie's Diary

The Regicide Report came out in January 2026.

This isn't a blog entry I wanted to write, but it's a necessary one: a statement about the use of generative large language models (colloquially "AI") in my work.

So, the second novel in the Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue, was first published on November 1st, 2006.

I must remember that now I'm over 60, doing more than one SF convention in a month is probably more than my stamina can cope with.

(This blog essay is overdue because I'm still waiting for new prescription glasses and writing while cross-eyed with text zoomed to 250% is tedious.

So, I had my second round of eye surgery, and it worked fine.

It's the end of March.

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Sorry I haven't updated the blog for a while: I've been busy.

The Regicide Report, the last novel in the main Laundry Files series, is coming out on January 27th in the US (from Tor.com Publishing) and the UK (from Orbit).

It's been years and years since I last went trawling for webcomics worth reading, so it's time for an update: obviously online search is pretty much useless, but we ought to be able to crowdsource something here.

It should be fairly obvious to anyone who's been paying attention to the tech news that many companies are pushing the adoption of "AI" (large language models) among their own employees--from software developers to management--and the push is coming from…

So: I've had surgery on one eye, and have new glasses to tide me over while the cataract in my other eye worsens enough to require surgery (I'm on the low priority waiting list in the meantime).

So, I'm cross-eyed and typing with one eye screwed shut, which sucks.

It's my 61st birthday this weekend and I have to say, I never expected to get to be this old—or this weirded-out by the world I'm living in, which increasingly resembles the backstory from a dystopian 1970s SF novel in which two-fisted billionaires coloni…