• .

  • 

  • I finally made it through this book. If it weren't for the joke about all your bases are belong to us, I would have given it 1 star, but that alone popped it into the 2 star range. How often do you see published work reference that? Otherwise I was not amused by this book really in any way. I f ... Continue

    I finally made it through this book. If it weren't for the joke about all your bases are belong to us, I would have given it 1 star, but that alone popped it into the 2 star range. How often do you see published work reference that? Otherwise I was not amused by this book really in any way. I found it really tedious and couldn't have cared less about the characters. I only finished it because I hate having to mark things as abandoned on here.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Deanna Kyre said on Jul 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

In the title piece, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, completes his theorem on "Phase Conjugate Grammars for Extra-dimensional Summoning." Turing's work paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when carried out, have side effects that leak through a channel underlying the structure of the Cosmos. Out there in the multiverse are "listeners" who can sometimes be coerced into opening gates. In 1945, Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS, in an attempt to escape the Allied onslaught, performs just such a summoning on the souls of more than six million. A gate opens to an alternate universe through which the SS move people and material-to live to fight another day. But their summoning brings forth more than the SS have bargained for-an evil, patiently waiting all this time while learning the ways of humans, now poises to lunch on Earth. Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems, Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet round out this story.