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Clegg, Miliband, Farage resigning (rumours that they are to be the new Top Gear line-up cannot be confirmed at this time).
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There's no briefing sheet on what to do when a supernatural soul-sucking horror disguised as a beautiful woman starts crying on your shoulder.
— Charles Stross
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.
— Charles Stross
We shouldn't even be here, I think distantly as I raise my weapon and take aim, we're management, not heroes.
— Charles Stross
(That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.)
— Charles Stross
Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.
— Charles Stross
Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
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Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.
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A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?
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And because my employers agree with me, and they're the government, you're outvoted.
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Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
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A mother's love - ""Fuck love," Amber snarls, "she wants power. — Charles Stross
I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs
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Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches ...
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If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
— Charles Stross
Biggest influence: my mother.
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I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
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The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
— Charles Stross
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
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It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.
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Down in the park with a friend called Five.
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Never bring a knife to a gun fight, I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off.
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In memory of Terry Pratchett,who showed us all how it's done — Charles Stross
I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
— Charles Stross
When you're sentenced to drive a Smart car on a road where everything else has a speed best described by its mach number, you tend to pay attention.
— Charles Stross
I do not click on random youtube videos.
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I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit, said the travel agent.
— Charles Stross
I'm not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work.
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the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.
— Charles Stross
It's the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who'll help you out of it
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Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.
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Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
— Charles Stross
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
— Charles Stross
But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.
— Charles Stross
After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
— Charles Stross
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.
— Charles Stross
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
— Charles Stross
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
— Charles Stross
Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.
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There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.
— Charles Stross
That looks nasty, I hope you've got a change of clothes back at the office. I guess now we know why real superheroes wear artificial fibers.
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I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.
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Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?
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I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .
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Only debt is forever.
— Charles Stross
I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).
— Charles Stross
The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
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If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.
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Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
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Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention.
— Charles Stross
let slip the yapping chihuahuas of infowar
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Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface ...
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They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not
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Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.
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Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.
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Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I'll be waiting with a shotgun.
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I wasn't expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins.
— Charles Stross
You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.
— Charles Stross
We are, after all, homo economicus.
— Charles Stross
The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.
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Money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything.
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(What band does the necromancer dance to? Boney M.)
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I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
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Fewer and fewer of our progenitors were replicating themselves via the weird, squishy process to which they devoted their organs of entertainment.
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To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
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While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
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you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?
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I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
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Would you mind finding Eileen and asking her why she's late? It doesn't normally take her this long to terminate an employee.
— Charles Stross
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.
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My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.
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Crawling eldritch horrors don't get planning permission unless they're Trump's hairpiece.)
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Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.
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friend of mine who was turned down
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Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable moment.
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This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.
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That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.'
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We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!
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...butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.
— Charles Stross