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Charles Stross

(1964) Writer United Kingdom

331 quotes in 1112 categories

Charles Stross’s 331 quotations blend speculative imagination with sharp tech‑savvy commentary. His voice navigates futuristic concepts while staying grounded in crisp, engaging prose.

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Charles Stross is a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for Singularity sky.

Quick Facts About Charles Stross

Born: October 18, 1964
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Singularity sky
Known for: The Laundry Files

About Charles Stross

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy. Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Hugo Award for Best Novella Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Edward E. Smith Memorial Award Sidewise Award for Alternate History Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Locus Award for Best Novella

Quotes by Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

Fiction

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“Brains mouses over one of the images.”

Brains

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“MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY.”

Minus

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Biggest influence: my mother.

Biggest

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“So Ah’m no evil, Ah’m just plain bad.”

Evil

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Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Gene

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“When humans gather, crime is certain.”

Certain

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“Only debt is forever.”

Debt

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“Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…”

Steal

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If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Forget

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“So you're saying, we've got a, a shoggoth gap?”

Arms race

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Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Available

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“Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches...”

Corrupts

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“an autonome, a native of this continuum:”

Continuum

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“Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?”

Farm

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“He looks like the bastard offspring of a multitool and a mangabot.”

Bastard

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“I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very…

Frogs

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“This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--”

Bank account

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To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Certain

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“They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.”

Code

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Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

Books

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“experience has taught me that it is best never knowingly to underestimate the lethality of a sufficiently determined butler.”

Butler

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“But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.”

First place

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every insterstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.”

Banker

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“First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not…

Consciousness

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I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but…

Children

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“I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross…

Ruptured Tongue

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“concentrate on my deep breathing and the whole mindfulness shtick and on trying not to casually squeeze the contents of a taxiing…

Mental health

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I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or…

Broken

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The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order…

Brain

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Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience:…

Audience

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Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be…

Adopting

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“That’s all right, pay no attention to me, just make yourself at home,” I tell the self-propelled whoopee cushion, then audit the…

Bottom line

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“Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too:…

Cats

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“All right.” Panin sips at his wine. “Excuse me, but—there is a personal connection?” “What?” “You appear unduly upset ...” “Yes.” She…

Personal connection

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“The food’s very good,” I offer defensively. “It’s not that”—she gazes past my shoulder—“it’s the culture. It’s very Californian. I wasn’t expecting…

Californian

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“AFTER WE DO THE WASHING-UP, I GET TO SPEND THE REST OF the evening reading FAQs on cat maintenance on the web.…

Maintenance

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“The morning after her date with her nerdishly cute prince of darkness, Cassie is scheduled for a lecture at nine o’clock. She…

Life's too short

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I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently…

Believe

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“Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases…

Doctor

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Charles Stross by topic

Writing (28) Books (27) Time (26) Writer (23) Ifs (20) Fiction (16) Life (14) Thinking (13) Book (12) Years (11) Politics (11) Technology (9) People (9) Novel (9) Humans (9) Computers (9) Programming (8) Management (8) Internet (8) Business (8)