“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)” — Charles Stross Eschatology Copy Share Image
I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent… — Charles Stross Fascist Copy Share Image
“He monologued at me. With PowerPoint.★★ ★★He what? And you’re still sane? Obviously I underestimated you.★★” — Charles Stross Obviously Copy Share Image
“Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et… — Charles Stross Change Copy Share Image
“As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you’re a child.” — Charles Stross Child 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
“Not to mention Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless, who are all under-producing and their milk is sour and they won’t go anywhere… — Charles stross Aimless 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
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol,… — Charles Stross Alcohol 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
“Russian espionage directed against the West has been rising since 2001. We kind of forgot that you don’t need communism to set… — Charles Stross Russia 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 Weirdest Turing Copy Share Image
I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux.… — Charles Stross Columnists Copy Share Image
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet… — Charles Stross Capitalism Copy Share Image
I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my… — Charles Stross Computer Copy Share Image
“And he’s maneuvered Old George into a position where the only way to safety lies through the New Annex. Things are about… — Charles Stross Messy 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 Awake Copy Share Image
“By dawn on Sunday he had been awake for over thirty hours, tracking a crisis of ever-expanding but indeterminate scope. A large… — Charles Stross Crisis Copy Share Image
“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness," Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. "You're as stupid as it's possible for an… — Charles Stross Memory Copy Share Image
“NASA are idiots. They want to send canned meat to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on… — Charles Stross Mars 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… — Charles Stross Agony 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 Atlas 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 Agency Copy Share Image
“It’s almost as if Congress has no idea that a giant occult power struggle for control of the US government is in… — Charles Stross Congress Copy Share Image
The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. — Charles Stross Bubbles Copy Share Image
The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated. — Charles Stross Piracy Copy Share Image
--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts… — Charles Stross Annoying Copy Share Image
“What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable… — Charles Stross Alien invasion Copy Share Image
“demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it.” — Charles Stross Customer Copy Share Image
“...there is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness.” — Charles Stross Eccentricity 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
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Amor Copy Share Image
“Please note your extensive customs briefing and remember to relinquish any illegal tools or concepts you may be carrying before debarkation.” — Charles Stross Concepts Copy Share Image
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross British Copy Share Image
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". — Charles Stross Being polite Copy Share Image
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put… — Charles Stross Accidents Copy Share Image
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] — Charles Stross Humans 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
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