Go read Atrocity Archives
This is a book about a sysadmin who is conscripted into doing black-ops type work. High math, sysadmin and occult stuff intersect in an extremely intriguing way. Don’t let my previous description make you think the book is silly. It is funny at times, on purpose, but most of the time it’s just some awesome suspense and some awesome scifi. The occult stuff isn’t just thrown out there, the author has an actual scientific explanation for all of it, usually based on high mathematics.
Dude, Lovecraft, Stephenson, & “magick.” You can’t loose.
Go buy a copy. If you use this link it helps a wonderful friend of mine who runs a podcast called “The Second Time Around“.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Thanks for the link Dan. Just to clairify, the podcast is called “The Second Time Around”, I just have a infertility news rss feed on the site.
Again, thanks for supporting the show.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:15 am
While you’re at it, read everything else by Charles Stross too :) Or just check out the short story “A Colder War” (it’s posted on his website I believe) for another taste of how he does Lovecraft…
October 29th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Sorry B, I updated the post :)
October 30th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Thanks for that Dan.