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"A Colder War" is an English-language, alternate history novelette by Charles Stross written c. 1997. The story fuses the Cold War and the Cthulhu Mythos by exploring the consequences of a follow-up to the expedition in H. P. Lovecraft's ''At the Mountains of Madness''.〔"Stross has admitted 'A Colder War' is directly inspired by Lovecraft's novel 'At The Mountains of Madness'." --("Review of A Colder War by Charles Stross" ), ''SFFaudio ''〕〔"Back in 1997 when I began to explore this area, I started with a novelette titled "A Colder War", which made it pretty explicit. ACW was set in the future of Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" – a future in which Nazi Germany, the USSR, and the USA had all found their uses for the ancient alien technologies found by the Pabodie expedition to Antarctica. It all ends in tears (and a fate worse than global thermonuclear annihilation – the point of that story was to inject some horror back into Lovecraftiana by linking it implicitly to something truly horrifying, to anyone who grew up during the Cold War), but not before a Senator in a congressional hearing gets to utter the words, “Mister President, we cannot allow a Shoggoth Gap to emerge.”" ("Ian Tregillis in conversation with Charlie Stross on ''The Laundry Files''" )〕 Although the story has similarity to the later Stross novel ''The Atrocity Archives'', they are set in different universes.〔"The online story "A Colder War" is *not * part of the Bob Howard/Laundry series, but is an earlier short story along a similar vein, but far more serious (and deadly); there is no humor at all in this shorter story." From (Marty Halper ), Stross' editor on the relevant stories〕 Teresa Nielsen Hayden describes the story on ''Making Light'' as "It's the Oliver North/Guns for Hostages scandal, seen from the viewpoint of a CIA bureaucrat, in a universe in which the entire Cthulhu Mythos is real." It was one of Locus Online's 2000 'Recommended Reading' novelettes. ==Publication history== The story originally appeared in ''Spectrum SF'' No. 3 in 2000, being later reprinted in Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' #18 and in Stross' collections ''Toast: And Other Rusted Futures'' (in 2002) and ''Wireless'' (2009). In late 2011 it appeared in two Cthulhu-themed anthologies: ''The Book of Cthulhu'' by Night Shade Books (ISBN 1597802328)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lockhart, Ross E. – ''The Book of Cthulhu'' )〕 and ''New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird'' by Prime Books (ISBN 1607012898).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird'' edited by Paula Guran )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Colder War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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