
A Colder War
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Narrated by:
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Pat Bottino
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By:
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Charles Stross
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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Confirms HP Lovecraft's genius...
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What did you love best about A Colder War?
It's a Laundry Files universe story.What did you like best about this story?
The particular plot of this storyWhat didn’t you like about Pat Bottino’s performance?
Sounds too much like a fast talking film noir detective.I kept waiting for him to sayGreat Story... Marginal Narration
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I have one phrase for you:
We have a Weakly-God-Like-Entity Gap.
Really fun listen
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Horrible Narration
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Great story, but wooden reader
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What Stross has done, building atop the Antarctic mission that was the subject of the H.P.L. novella “At the Mountain of Madness”, is establish a fully realized record of the Lovecraftiqn pantheon in the 20th century.
The Nazis, having seized many samples of paranormal material in the aftermath of the early Antarctic expeditions, rapidly pull the threads, unspooling the stitching of the Old Ones and their Shoggoths, Cthulhu, Yog-Soth—you get the point. Before they could bring these “weapons” to bear, WWII ends. Russia, having annexed Numerous Shoggoths, interplanetary gates and Cthulhu himself, begins their half century competition with America under the limitations of the “Dresden Agreement”, a top secret treaty on the use of these strange creatures and objects.
Unfortunately, over the following decades, as tension rises between Warsaw Pact nations and NATO, the Dresden Agreement grows more precarious.
Finally, Ronnie Reagan has arrived! He’s empowered an aggressive young colonel named Ollie North to develops a small team of covert operatives who begin employing the United States’ various capabilities…
What, honestly, could go wrong?
READ IT!!!!
PS-The audio production is phenomenal!
The best Lovecraft based lore expansion ever written!
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What did you love best about A Colder War?
I really liked the growing doom as the story went on, the shear scale and vision of the story was incredible.What did you like best about this story?
Probably the descriptions of strange locations.Which character – as performed by Pat Bottino – was your favorite?
The ColonelIf you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
A colder war is coming.Great stuff
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a must read for any human
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Tonally Perfect
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