“Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner.” For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born… — Charles Stross Time Copy Share Image
“Are you a psychiatrist?” “I don’t think so.” He shuffles forward, heading towards a side bay that, as I approach it, turns… — Charles Stross Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Business Copy Share Image
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 Books Copy Share Image
“(Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant… — Charles Stross Drink Tea Copy Share Image
“That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to ‘Oh fuck.’ ” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Or was it running the world’s weirdest Turing-complete variant Dungeons & Dragons campaign using a rule set isomorphic with first-order transdimensional summoning… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives. — Charles Stross Give me Copy Share Image
“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)” — Charles Stross Eschatology Copy Share Image
“I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very… — Charles Stross Frogs 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
“My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I… — Charles Stross Computers 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
“the geas in question draws its power from the sum over time of the entire loyal British population’s faith in the Crown… — Charles Stross Time Copy Share Image
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in… — Charles Stross Black and white 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
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 Book Copy Share Image
The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say. — Charles Stross AI Copy Share Image
“since the draw-down in forces triggered by the 2010 defense review, the units the Laundry can draw upon have been depleted. There… — Charles Stross Air force Copy Share Image
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its… — Charles Stross Gone Copy Share Image
“We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection,… — Charles Stross Responsibility Copy Share Image
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions. — Charles Stross Been Copy Share Image
“You've just spent an entire prehistoric human lifetime as an ice ghoul and people are needling you for having too many arms?"… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Brain Copy Share Image
