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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). — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off. — Charles Stross

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? — Charles Stross

And because my employers agree with me, and they're the government, you're outvoted. — Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. — Charles Stross

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 — Charles Stross

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches ... — Charles Stross

For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time. — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers. — Charles Stross

Down in the park with a friend called Five. — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively. — Charles Stross

In memory of Terry Pratchett,
who showed us all how it's done — Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — 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. — Charles Stross

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

The bastard knows I need to know what he knows and he knows I can't say no. — Charles Stross

I'm not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work. — Charles Stross

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 — Charles Stross

The domes and dildos of pressurized buildings cast slowly lengthening shadows. — Charles Stross

Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger. — Charles Stross

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

Demonstrating the importance of being Ernst as the marketing department put it. — 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. — Charles Stross

Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon. — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking. — Charles Stross

Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe? — Charles Stross

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

There is a point at which eccentricity begins to impact operational effectiveness. — Charles Stross

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity. — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross

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 — Charles Stross

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface ... — Charles Stross

Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever. — Charles Stross

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. — Charles Stross

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not — Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter. — Charles Stross

Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam. — Charles Stross

Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I'll be waiting with a shotgun. — Charles Stross

I stared at him. You're a bat, Rudi! She's a mermaid. What were you thinking? — Charles Stross

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

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead. — Charles Stross

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry. — Charles Stross

Money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything. — Charles Stross

(What band does the necromancer dance to? Boney M.) — Charles Stross

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives. — Charles Stross

Fewer and fewer of our progenitors were replicating themselves via the weird, squishy process to which they devoted their organs of entertainment. — Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? — Charles Stross

What better way to weaken a powerful enemy than to get it fighting itself? — Charles Stross

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

you young ones . . ." 'Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you? — Charles Stross

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. — Charles Stross

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

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death. — 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. — Charles Stross

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions. — Charles Stross

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross

Crawling eldritch horrors don't get planning permission unless they're Trump's hairpiece.) — Charles Stross

The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen. — Charles Stross

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. — Charles Stross

friend of mine who was turned down — Charles Stross

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. — Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] — Charles Stross

What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable moment. — Charles Stross

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion. — Charles Stross

That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.' — Charles Stross

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! — Charles Stross

...butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker. — Charles Stross