History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for… — Charles Stross Country Copy Share Image
“She turns and stalks off in search of other minions to intimidate, leaving you flexing your fingers and trying to decide whether… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and… — Charles Stross Management Copy Share Image
I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have… — Charles Stross 80s Copy Share Image
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive… — Charles Stross Everything Copy Share Image
Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. — Charles Stross Christmas Copy Share Image
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel… — Charles Stross Block Copy Share Image
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things… — Charles Stross Couple Copy Share Image
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background,… — Charles Stross Being 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
“She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking.” — Charles Stross The-void 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
“She extends a fingertip. After a moment's hesitation, Manfred extends a fingertip of his own. They touch, exchanging vCards and instant-messaging handles.… — Charles Stross Programming Copy Share Image
“demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.” — Charles Stross Marketing Copy Share Image
“All life is based on the destruction of other life, even on tremendous scales of space and time... Our ancestors understood that… — Charles Stross Ice age Copy Share Image
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. — Charles Stross Amnesia Copy Share Image
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for… — Charles Stross Cynical Copy Share Image
I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and… — Charles Stross Black Copy Share Image
“The most efficient kind of censorship isn’t the heavy-handed black inking of the secret policeman; it’s the self-censorship we impose on ourselves… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from… — Charles Stross Aliens Copy Share Image
“experience has taught me that it is best never knowingly to underestimate the lethality of a sufficiently determined butler.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
