“MONDAY DAWNS BRIGHT AND HOT AND EARLY, AND I FIND MY SELF waking to the happy knowledge that I can go back… — Charles Stross Monday 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
I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch. — Charles Stross Drama Copy Share Image
“where it’s not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can… — Charles Stross Senior Copy Share Image
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do… — Charles Stross Change 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
“Apparently you’re only allowed to demolish Wolverhampton if you’re a property developer like Donald Trump. Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission… — Charles Stross Demolish Copy Share Image
“Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly… — Charles Stross Bird Copy Share Image
“I’m going flat out at maybe a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour on the autobahn while some joker is shooting at… — Charles Stross Joker Copy Share Image
“Is not happening yet," contributes Boris. "Singularity implies infinite rate of change achieved momentarily. Future not amenable thereafter to prediction by presingularity… — Charles Stross Change Copy Share Image
“concentrate on my deep breathing and the whole mindfulness shtick and on trying not to casually squeeze the contents of a taxiing… — Charles Stross Mental health Copy Share Image
“I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross… — Charles Stross Ruptured Tongue Copy Share Image
I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but… — Charles Stross Children 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
“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
“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
“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
“First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not… — Charles Stross Consciousness Copy Share Image
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:… — Charles Stross Audience 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
I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or… — Charles Stross Broken Copy Share Image
Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be… — Charles Stross Adopting Copy Share Image
“I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand what they’d got themselves… — Charles Stross Young ones Copy Share Image
“It was one of ours originally, but no human being can sprint around a building with their helmet off and backpack missing… — Charles Stross Flower Copy Share Image
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space… — Charles Stross Boldly Copy Share Image
What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a… — Charles Stross Car Copy Share Image
“This is serious business: you’re representing the Laundry in front of the Black Chamber and some very big defence contractors, old school… — Charles Stross Business Copy Share Image
“And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b)… — Charles Stross Political Copy Share Image
“I set the self-portrait timer on the camera to ten seconds, handed it to the zombie, and sent him into the grid… — Charles Stross Self portrait Copy Share Image
“Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature… — Charles Stross Europe Copy Share Image
“Lockhart twitches. “I do not think Stockholm syndrome means quite what you think it means.” “What, the tendency of people—usually women—in unfamiliar… — Charles Stross Stockholm syndrome Copy Share Image
“April 5th. You know what that means to me? That means the budget for the project expired at the end of financial… — Charles Stross Money 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 Minions Copy Share Image
“The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on… — Charles Stross Intelligence Copy Share Image
When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing.… — Charles Stross Book Copy Share Image
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage… — Charles Stross Causes Copy Share Image
