Charles Stross

“So Ah’m no evil, Ah’m just plain bad.”

— Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

— Charles Stross

“Non-euclidian sofa”

— Charles Stross

We are, after all, homo economicus.

— Charles Stross

Starships are all work and no fun.

— Charles Stross

“Only debt is forever.”

— Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

— Charles Stross

“When humans gather, crime is certain.”

— Charles Stross

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

— Charles Stross

“reach into my travel bag and pull out my hacked Palm computer,”

— Charles Stross

“Was failure to make tenure track justification for an honor killing?”

— Charles Stross

“Ah, the warm fuzzies of decisive action.”

— Charles Stross

“They never tell you how heavy a corpse is in training school.”

— Charles Stross

“Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.”

— Charles Stross

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

— Charles Stross

“Please note your extensive customs briefing and remember to relinquish any illegal tools or concepts you may be carrying before debarkation.”

— Charles Stross

“demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.”

— Charles Stross

“What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable…

— Charles Stross

--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts…

— Charles Stross

“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)”

— Charles Stross

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good…

— Charles Stross

“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.”

— Charles Stross

“...there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.”

— Charles Stross

“Our worshipers have met this British agent before. Do not attempt to convert him; bring him alive before Us. He will be…

— Charles Stross

“There are all sorts of other things, investigations into silent movies and TV serials (I pulled the file on “Quatermass” for shits…

— Charles Stross

“Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and…

— Charles Stross

“Imagine, Sir David, the end of all you ever wanted brought about because an idiot banker did not prioritize highly enough a…

— Charles Stross

“the geas in question draws its power from the sum over time of the entire loyal British population’s faith in the Crown…

— Charles Stross

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of…

— Charles Stross

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is…

— Charles Stross

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus…

— Charles Stross

“There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just…

— Charles Stross

“I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed—Amazon logging…

— Charles Stross

“I’m a believer. And like I said, I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring…

— Charles Stross

“his arms. Human. Cat. Human. Cat. No doubled vision: it’s a cat, singular. A solitary diurnal ambush hunter with good hearing and…

— Charles Stross

“It’s insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave…

— Charles Stross

“There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify.…

— Charles Stross

“Are they by any chance a quiverfull ministry?” Pete’s lips thin. “Yes.” The word “quiverfull” sets my alarm bells ringing, and clearly…

— Charles Stross

“Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel…

— Charles Stross