“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
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
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of… — Charles Stross Cairo Copy Share Image
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? — Charles Stross Certain Copy Share Image
“The food’s very good,” I offer defensively. “It’s not that”—she gazes past my shoulder—“it’s the culture. It’s very Californian. I wasn’t expecting… — Charles Stross 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 Copy Share Image
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested. — Charles Stross Controversy Copy Share Image
“The vampire has just realized she’s in a meeting populated exclusively by spooks and people who go bump in the night.” — Charles Stross 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
“And now my blood ran cold. Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of… — Charles Stross Management Copy Share Image
“In case you’re worried about BLUE HADES, Professoe O’Brien speaks the language and is qualified to Liase. She’s also completed her certification… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a… — Charles Stross Broken Copy Share Image
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who… — Charles Stross Care Copy Share Image
“Let’s see.’ She fiddles with her terminal and the room card reader. ‘You’re in 403 and 404. Have a nice day.' I… — Charles Stross Books 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
Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America. — Charles Stross America Copy Share Image
Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell… — Charles Stross Age 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
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support… — Charles Stross Building Copy Share Image
“The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where… — Charles Stross Humour Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Sir David, the end of all you ever wanted brought about because an idiot banker did not prioritize highly enough a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been… — Charles Stross Book Copy Share Image
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross Ideas Copy Share Image
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make… — Charles Stross Breathe Copy Share Image
