A Colder War
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"A Colder War" is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross written c. 1997 and originally published in 2000.[1] The story fuses the Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos.
"A Colder War" | |
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Short story by Charles Stross | |
Genre(s) | Alternate history Cthulhu Mythos |
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Published in | Spectrum SF No. 3 |
Publication date | July 2000 |
The story is set in the early 1980s and explores the consequences of the Pabodie expedition in H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.[2][3] Although the story has similarity to the later Stross novel The Atrocity Archives, they are set in different universes.[4] Teresa Nielsen Hayden describes the story on Making Light as, "the Oliver North/Guns for Hostages scandal, seen from the viewpoint of a CIA bureaucrat, in a universe in which the entire Cthulhu Mythos is real."[5]
It was one of Locus Online's 2000 'Recommended Reading' novelettes.[6]