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A carregar... Overtime (edição 2010)por Charles Stross
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This short story/novella had a lot of build, which made it seem like it was going to be this awesome invasion story, dragged towards the end and was a bit of a let-down from the beginning. However, this is a definite read for Christmas and a wonderful alternative to the usual sappy Christmas story. Besides, you have to know if a paper-pusher stuck on night watch due to some bad luck can really save the world from... well, you won't believe it when you read the story! This short story/novella had a lot of build, which made it seem like it was going to be this awesome invasion story, dragged towards the end and was a bit of a let-down from the beginning. However, this is a definite read for Christmas and a wonderful alternative to the usual sappy Christmas story. Besides, you have to know if a paper-pusher stuck on night watch due to some bad luck can really save the world from... well, you won't believe it when you read the story! Re-read 3/28/18: 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. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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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. ( )