Charles Stross

Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set…

— Charles Stross

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a…

— Charles Stross

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold…

— Charles Stross

“You've just spent an entire prehistoric human lifetime as an ice ghoul and people are needling you for having too many arms?"…

— Charles Stross

“Look, we know, now, that a singularity doesn’t turn into a voracious predator that eats all the dumb matter in its path,…

— Charles Stross

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different…

— Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for…

— Charles Stross

“(Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant…

— Charles Stross

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an…

— Charles Stross

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

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background,…

— Charles Stross