Fiction Quotes by Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

— Charles Stross

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

— Charles Stross

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

— Charles Stross

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

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard…

— 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

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too…

— Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a…

— Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format…

— Charles Stross

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space…

— 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

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

— 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

Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive…

— Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down…

— Charles Stross