Missile Gap, by Stross, Charles

Missile Gap by Charles Stross is one of the strangest novellas I have read in some time, and certainly the weirdest this year. Its a cold war piece set over top of one of the most original SF backdrops that you will find out there. The story is good, but not perfect. But I like it more for its wierdness factor than anything. Three out of five stars.

Missile Gap is the story of a very very alternate reality where just before the hottest day of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, some unknown alie[…]

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