Charles Stross

Here is a modern novelette in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos that is rich in detail and frightening in execution. Imagine David Cronenberg directing Dr. Strangelove, based on a script by H. P. Lovecraft....

Manfred Macx is a patent junkie, spending his days dreaming up ideas that will make him rich, very rich indeed....

Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once....

A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States....

You can kill a politician but their ideas usually live on. How much more dangerous, then, the ideas of mathematicians....