![]() ![]() The horror of this prospect is, in the story, linked to the horrors of real history. Whatever then walked the Earth would not be life, let alone human. If the secret got out and (consequently) other things got in, life would become impossible. That last phrase isn’t ironic if people suspected for a moment that the only thing Lovecraft got wrong was to underestimate the power and malignity of cosmic evil, life would become unbearable. Its lesser premise is that if the world contains things that (as Pratchett puts it somewhere) even the dark is afraid of, then you can bet that there’ll be a secret government agency covering them up for our own good. ![]() ![]() Its basic premise is that mathematics can be magic. Its form is that of a horror thriller with lots of laughs, some of them uneasy. “THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE” IS A SCIENCE FICTION novel. Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, and Len Deighton. Three authors in particular made it possible for me to imagine this book and I salute you, H. ![]() Finally, I stand on the shoulders of giants. Paul Fraser of Spectrum SF applied far more editorial muscle than I had any right to expect, in preparation for the original magazine serialization likewise Marty Halpern of Golden Gryphon Press, who made this longer edition possible. Firstly, I owe a debt of gratitude to the usual suspects-members of my local writers workshop all-who suffered through first-draft reading hell and pointed out numerous headaches that needed fixing. ![]()
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