The Claus Effect

It's the 1990s. The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is down for the count⁰́₄and the Free World is getting ready for its first nuclear-free Christmas in decades. Only one thing in the world can ruin it. Santa Claus. Who can forget the horrifying events of "The Toy Mill" (Nickle & Schroeder's 1993 Aurora-Award-winning story), in which a malevolent, post-industrial-revolution Santa Claus granted Emily, a little girl, a Christmas wish⁰́₄and her desire to be a Christmas Elf nearly destroyed the world? It's eight years later, and Christmas should be a joyful time⁰́₄shouldn't it? Not with Santa on the loose! Events propel the now-teenaged Emily and West Point Cadet Neil Nyman on a breakneck journey through suburban shopping malls, Ontario cottage country, and the frigid northern wastes of the former Soviet Union⁰́₄battling displaced Cossacks, blue-blooded cottagers and homicidal, downsized elves along the way. Finally, they must face down the terrifying truth: about Christmas, the New World Order⁰́₄and The Claus Effect. Never before available as an ebook, and now with a previously unpublished epilogue added! It's the 1990s. The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is down for the count0́4and the Free World is getting ready for its first nuclear-free Christmas in decades. Only one thing in the world can ruin it. Santa Claus. Who can forget the horrifying events of "The Toy Mill" (Nickle & Schroeder's 1993 Aurora-Award-winning story), in which a malevolent, post-industrial-revolution Santa Claus granted Emily, a little girl, a Christmas wish0́4and her desire to be a Christmas Elf nearly destroyed the world? It's eight years later, and Christmas should be a joyful time0́4shouldn't it? Not with Santa on the loose! Events propel the now-teenaged Emily and West Point Cadet Neil Nyman on a breakneck journey through suburban shopping malls, Ontario cottage country, and the frigid northern wastes of the former Soviet Union0́4battling displaced Cossacks, blue-blooded cottagers and homicidal, downsized elves along the way. Finally, they must face down the terrifying truth: about Christmas, the New World Order0́4and The Claus Effect. Never before available as an ebook, and now with a previously unpublished epilogue added!