“Was failure to make tenure track justification for an honor killing?” — Charles Stross Failure Copy Share Image
“reach into my travel bag and pull out my hacked Palm computer,” — Charles Stross Hacked Copy Share Image
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Circumstances Copy Share Image
“After a few seconds to savor his self-derailment, Derek gets back on course.” — Charles Stross Derek Gets Copy Share Image
The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say. — Charles Stross Abnormally Copy Share Image
It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead. — Charles Stross Easy Copy Share Image
I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance. — Charles Stross Fantasy Copy Share Image
I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep… — Charles Stross Character Copy Share Image
“As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him” — Charles Stross Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures,… — Charles Stross Adventure Copy Share Image
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Amor Copy Share Image
“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)” — Charles Stross Crawling Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good… — Charles Stross Good man Copy Share Image
“...there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.” — Charles Stross Eccentricity Copy Share Image
“demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.” — Charles Stross Customer Copy Share Image
“Finally, they began to investigate the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Wilson, Wright was convinced, was a KGB agent.” I’m nodding along like… — Charles Stross Prime minister Copy Share Image
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both… — Charles Stross Damage Copy Share Image
“To a many-angled one, we impoverished entities who are stranded in three-plus-one dimensions are fairly harmless; nevertheless, even the inhabitants of flatland… — Charles Stross Inhabitants Flatland Copy Share Image
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a… — Charles Stross Europe Copy Share Image
“But what are we going to do with a load of guns?” asks Pete. “I don’t know, Brains, what are we going… — Charles Stross Every night Copy Share Image
“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms… — Charles Stross Insurance Copy Share Image
“But I can’t be in three places at once!” “Tough,” says Mo, and that shell-like expression cracks into a grin. “You’re management… — Charles Stross Management Copy Share Image
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws… — Charles Stross Crazy Copy Share Image
“Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel… — Charles Stross Dumb Copy Share Image
“It’s insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave… — Charles Stross Heat wave Copy Share Image
“I’m a believer. And like I said, I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring… — Charles Stross Atheist Copy Share Image
“his arms. Human. Cat. Human. Cat. No doubled vision: it’s a cat, singular. A solitary diurnal ambush hunter with good hearing and… — Charles Stross Cats Copy Share Image
“I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed—Amazon logging… — Charles Stross Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just… — Charles Stross Cold war Copy Share Image
“There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify.… — Charles Stross Politics Copy Share Image
“Are they by any chance a quiverfull ministry?” Pete’s lips thin. “Yes.” The word “quiverfull” sets my alarm bells ringing, and clearly… — Charles Stross Quiver Copy Share Image
“A mother’s love—" "Fuck love," Amber snarls, "she wants power.” — Charles Stross Love Copy Share Image
Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead. — Charles Stross Demon Copy Share Image
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. — Charles Stross Islands Copy Share Image
I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross Crap Copy Share Image
