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Work InformationOvertime by Charles Stross
  
 jpv0 | Jul 21, 2021 |    ) bratell | Dec 25, 2020 | ) OptimisticCautiously | Sep 16, 2020 | ) OptimisticCautiously | Sep 16, 2020 | The weather outside (the universe) is frightful, but the fire (of the furnace) is so delightful, and since we've got no place to go (in time), let it snow (stack overflow), let it snow (stack overflow), let it snow (stack overflow). Original Review: My favorite kind of christmas story: gibbering nameless horrors leaving gifts in stockings. (  ) bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in "Overtime," the Laundry is on a skeleton staff for Christmas'leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands between the world and annihilation by the Thing That Comes Down Chimneys. Written especially for Tor.com's holiday season, Charles Stross's novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award. Charles Stross is the Hugo-winning author of some of the most acclaimed novels and stories of the last ten years, including Singularity Sky, Accelerando, Halting State, the "Merchant Princes" series beginning with The Family Trade, and the story collections Toast and Wireless. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. No library descriptions found. |
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THE DEEP ONES: "Overtime" by Charles Stross
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Overtime is a fun little story about the Horrors of Christmas and builds just a bit more onto the world of the Laundry Files. It's weird how much authority the night watchman has, but it also makes a certain kind of sense.
While I tend to like novels more than short stories, I'm not sure this would have been able to use the extra space. Nicely self contained.
I particularly liked the wibbly wobbly bits towards the end. Cosmic horror tends more towards alternate realities than true time travel, and I think this was an amusing example there of. (