The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big… — Charles Stross 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 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 Copy Share Image
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a… — Charles Stross 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 Copy Share Image
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output… — 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
