Anodyne
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
 

A Colder War

Charles Stross' extraordinary Mythos pastiche. My favorite piece of his writing, a perfect balancing of tongue-in-cheek homage and genuine air of supernatural menace.

"Roger shakes himself. Remembering time-survivor curves, the captured Nazi medical atrocity records mapping the ability of a human brain to survive in close proximity to the Baltic Singularity. Mengele's insanity. The SS's final attempt to liquidate the survivors, the witnesses. Koschei, primed and pointed at the American heartland like a darkly evil gun. The 'world-eating mind' adrift in brilliant dreams of madness, estivating in the absence of its prey: dreaming of the minds of sapient beings, be they barrel-bodied wing-flying tentacular things, or their human inheritors. . . ."
- posted by cjb @ 5:09 PM


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