If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. — Charles Stross Find Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.” — Charles Stross Causality Copy Share Image
“They never tell you how heavy a corpse is in training school.” — Charles Stross Corpse Copy Share Image
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put… — Charles Stross Accidents Copy Share Image
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] — Charles Stross Humans Copy Share Image
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". — Charles Stross Being polite Copy Share Image
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross British Copy Share Image
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do… — Charles Stross Change Copy Share Image
I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch. — Charles Stross Drama Copy Share Image
“where it’s not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can… — Charles Stross Senior Copy Share Image
“MONDAY DAWNS BRIGHT AND HOT AND EARLY, AND I FIND MY SELF waking to the happy knowledge that I can go back… — Charles Stross Monday Copy Share Image
“... the ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire… — Charles Stross Ads Copy Share Image
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a… — Charles Stross Becoming Copy Share Image
“In case you’re worried about BLUE HADES, Professoe O’Brien speaks the language and is qualified to Liase. She’s also completed her certification… — Charles Stross Speaks Language Copy Share Image
“either they’re trying to upsell you a fifty-quid-a-head artisanal pork pie (serving this week: Peppa Pig’s Uncle Bertie’s left haunch, marinaded in… — Charles Stross Pork Pie Copy Share Image
“If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight… — Charles Stross Nightmare Copy Share Image
I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back… — Charles Stross Attention Copy Share Image
“It’s lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world’s most annoying office-mate to shut… — Charles Stross Moment of silence Copy Share Image
If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a… — Charles Stross Capitalism Copy Share Image
“See, it’s the sudden cognitive whiplash that does it. One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin… — Charles Stross Business Copy Share Image
“Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner.” For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born… — Charles Stross Time Copy Share Image
“Very good, Mr. Howard. They were the ones who didn’t try to second-guess their commanding officer. Can I suggest that in future… — Charles Stross Books Copy Share Image
“Don’t you have any concept of individuality?" she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with her internal states. "Individuality is an… — Charles Stross Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Growing old is natural," growls the old woman. "When you’ve lived long enough for all your ambitions to be in ruins, friendships… — Charles Stross Growing old Copy Share Image
“Accelerating to speeds faster than light was, of course, impossible. General relativity had made that clear enough back in the twentieth century.… — Charles Stross General relativity Copy Share Image
“It’s almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in… — Charles Stross Congress Copy Share Image
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's… — Charles Stross Agency Copy Share Image
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