Where "The Atrocity Archives" was written in the idiom of Len Deighton and "The Jennifer Morgue" was a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, "The Fuller Memorandum" is a homage of sorts to Anthony Price's "Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler" series of spy thrillers, and features two minor characters named Roskill and Panin, names which appeared as recurring characters in Price's series. The title is derived from General J. F. C. Fuller, military theorist, right-wing intellectual occultist, and an associate of Aleister Crowley, and also a reference to the film The Quiller Memorandum (Stross has noted that his original intention was to pastiche Adam Hall's Quiller novels, but that he changed the plan part way through the writing).