The biggest single threat to NATO may be the Shoggoth Gap. The wild card is Lt. Col. Oliver North, President Reagan's man. Roger Jourgensen, CIA operative, is at the center of this crisis. If all the political wrangling doesn't work out perfectly, there will be hell to pay, or worse - far, far worse.
Here is a modern novelette in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos that is rich in detail and frightening in execution. Stross' stunning tale will pull you back into the cold-war era, engendering fear and then magnifying it into non-euclidean infinities. Imagine David Cronenberg directing Dr. Strangelove, based on a script by H. P. Lovecraft. Imagine an alternate history in which nuclear bombs are not the ultimate weapon, but instead are merely a stepping stone to eldritch technologies accessible through certain trans-dimensional forces first encountered in 1920s Antarctica, technologies that neither the United States nor the USSR can quite contain.
Stross has admitted that A Colder War was directly inspired by Lovecraft's novel At the Mountains of Madness. The amount of research and historical mastery Stross sprinkles throughout the narrative creates the verisimilitude necessary for truly effective alternate history.
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"Unlike The Atrocity Archive, which is very tongue-in-cheek, this novella (a sequel to At The Mountains Of Madness) starts out dark and only gets darker. One of the best Lovecraftian tales I've read in a long time. " — Waffles (5 out of 5 stars)
"Unlike The Atrocity Archive, which is very tongue-in-cheek, this novella (a sequel to At The Mountains Of Madness) starts out dark and only gets darker. One of the best Lovecraftian tales I've read in a long time. "
" The ideas weren't exactly original, but the execution was nice. "
" It should have been longer!!!! Liked it! Wonderful worldbuilding in such a short story "
" This a menacing update of Lovecraft and cold war paranoia..very grim and gripping. I thought this would be really goofy..I was wrong. "
" Awesome- Lovecraft goes cold war drama and all that entails. "
" Unlike The Atrocity Archive, which is very tongue-in-cheek, this novella (a sequel to At The Mountains Of Madness) starts out dark and only gets darker. One of the best Lovecraftian tales I've read in a long time. "
" Stross' sequel to "At the Mountains of Madness". I'm becoming a Charlie Stross fanboi "
Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels, including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn’s Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003. He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.
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