| "Notes from the General Secretariat" | |
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| Author | Harry Turtledove, as Mark Gordian |
| First Appearance | Analog Magazine |
| Reprinted | No |
| Collected | No |
| Series | Kelvin R. Throop |
| Genre(s) | Political satire |
| Publication date | August, 1985 |
"Notes from the General Secretariat" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published under the name Mark Gordian. It was published in the August, 1985 issue of Analog (which also contained "Les Mortes d'Arthur", a story Turtledove published under his pseudonym Eric G. Iverson). It has not been reprinted.
The story is Turtledove's contribution to the Kelvin R. Throop series, a tongue-in-cheek shared universe, endemic to Analog. As with the previous Throop works, the story features Throop working in a bureaucracy which he is causing to self-destruct through a series of disrespectful memos and letters. In this story, Throop, under the name "Beals Becker", has taken a position in the United Nations, and issues a number of sarcastic and insulting memos and letters to various public officials.
See also[]
Turtledove stories with a similar bureaucratic epistolary format:
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