Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. — 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
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — 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
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross 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 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
