The Atrocity Archives (2004, ISBN 1930846258) is a collection of two stories by British author Charles Stross, consisting of the short novel "The Atrocity Archive" (originally serialized in Spectrum SF) and "The Concrete Jungle", which won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Charles Stross at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow Charles David George Stross (born October 18, 1964) is a science fiction writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. ... Winners of the Hugo Award for best novella. ...
The stories are Lovecraftian spy thrillers involving a secret history of the 20th century. Horror elements such as the Nazis using higher mathematics to open "gates" to other dimensions are combined with humorous elements satirizing bureaucracy. The protagonist of both stories is a computer expert named Bob Howard forced to work for a secret British intelligence organization called "The Laundry". H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... The thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. ... A secret history (or shadow history) is a version of history that is at odds with commonly accepted historical events and which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed or forgotten. ...
A sequel entitled The Jennifer Morgue is patterned after the James Bond movies, and is scheduled for release in 2006. James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series. ...
Stross's earlier story "A Colder War" (available online) also mixes elements of Lovecraft and espionage, and is sometimes mistaken as a tie-in with the Bob Howard stories, however the fictional background and assumptions are quite different.
External links
"The Concrete Jungle" from The Atrocity Archives published under a Creative Commons License
ConcreteJungle came to me as I was looking for a fun and colorful way to build awareness to this highly versatile and truly remarkable material.
Also being involved in a specialty concrete business I was looking for a common thread amongst those in different facets of the concrete industry to ignite unification and bridge the gap of young, forward thinking and cutting edge individuals with old school traditionalists.
ConcreteJungle is currently being syndicated at concretenetwork.com and concretejunglecomix.com.
The term concretejungle is often used to refer to a city, or an area of a city, with many tower blocks or tenementflats made of brick and concrete.
The region is synonymous with its extensive concreteestates built in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
Black Label Society, a Heavy Metal Band released a single from their new album "Shot to hell" called ConcreteJungle on June 24th 2006, before the actual album was released on September 12th 2006.
Feeds |
Contact