A review by songwind
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

5.0

This book was a truly remarkable blend of humor, horror, and alternate history. Stross creates an atmosphere of horror and uncertainty, built around the mathematical principles that his computer-scientist heroes cling to, while peppering it with a bureaucratic humor immediately identifiable to anyone who has worked for the government.

There are a lot of references to mathematical and comp-sci theory in the book, but they happen in such a way that one does not have to be intimately familiar with them to enjoy the work.