false 101869 9 In the title piece, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, completes his theorem on "Phase Conjugate Grammars for Extra-dimensional Summoning." Turing's work paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when carried out, have side effects that leak through a channel underlying the structure of the Cosmos. Out there in the multiverse are "listeners" who can sometimes be coerced into opening gates. In 1945, Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS, in an attempt to escape the Allied onslaught, performs just such a summoning on the souls of more than six million. A gate opens to an alternate universe through which the SS move people and material-to live to fight another day. But their summoning brings forth more than the SS have bargained for-an evil, patiently waiting all this time while learning the ways of humans, now poises to lunch on Earth. Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems, Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet round out this story. 322252 2004 The Atrocity Archives (The Laundry, Book 1) total:665|5:206|4:284|3:131|2:39|1:5| 665 2642 927 112 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 26 22:36:50 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 22:57:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 20 15:54:07 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 16:05:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 17 14:24:09 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 14:27:41 -0800 2008
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If Lovecraft or Cthulhu say nothing to you, this is not for you. If you want to take a very British romp through the twin horrors of Bureaucracy and Horrors out from Outer S...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 17:45:43 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 18:00:36 -0800 2009
Scott has gotten on a Charles Stross kick, and I asked him to pass along the best book by this almost-new-to-us author. (We read Iron Sunri...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 05 05:12:52 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 13:07:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 05:12:52 -0700 2009
Dans les deux récits de cet ouvrage, on suit Bob Howard, agent de la Laverie (une agence d'état luttant contre les menaces occultes), dans sa lutte contre les forces du Maâal. Des forces du mal bien curieuses, d'ailleurs, puisqu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 13:51:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 01:11:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 12:34:22 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 20:31:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 18:03:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 13:51:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 13 14:43:05 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:43:05 -0700 2009 The Atrocity Archives almost beggars description. Mix some H.P. Lovecraft with some Len Deighton (Stross pays an interesting homage to both in an afterword) and some William Gibson and you start coming close.[return][return]It's about a British spy agency ("The Laundry") fighting bad guys...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 11 18:45:47 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 18:59:57 -0700 2009
Stross seems to be a different writer with each book of his that i have read. Singularity Sky was very serious sci-fi. Glasshouse, had touches of humour and irony, and was more 'lifestyle sci-fi', and the Atrocity Archives is a comedy cunningly disguised as sci-fi.
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"If we pursue this plan, by late 2006 any two adjacent public CCTV terminals--or private camcorders equipped with a digital video link--will be reprogrammable by any MAGINOT BLUE STARS superuser to permit the operator to turn them into a SCOR...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 10:29:11 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 10:33:46 -0700 2009
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