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| Title: | Atrocity Archives
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| Author: | Charles Stross |
| ISBN: | 1930846258 : 9781930846258 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 273 |
| Weight: | .494 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Golden Gryphon Press) - May 2004 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Science fiction |
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.
