[Probably my favorite of Stross’ Laundry stories yet, free to read online. Anyone who thinks unicorns are cute should probably be forced at gunpoint to read this…-egg]
“To paraphrase the stern & terrible Oliver, I beseech you, Robert, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken about unicorns. They are an antique horror that surpasses human understanding, a nightmarish reminder that we are but swimmers in the sunlit upper waters of an abyss…”