Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind… — Charles Stross Copy Share
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross Copy Share
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. — Charles Stross Copy Share
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Copy Share
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;… — Charles Stross Copy Share
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the… — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Copy Share
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share
“If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so… — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)” — Charles Stross Copy Share
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?” — Charles Stross Copy Share
