Charles Stross
Charles Stross
Charles David George "Charlie" Strossis an award-winning British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1964
motivation joy novelty
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
ocean night men
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
fun
Starships are all work and no fun.
thinking law broken
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.
We are, after all, homo economicus.
thinking interesting swim
The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'
thinking boots fuzzy
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
book views cash
Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.
smart matter singularity
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
land fantasy trilogies
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.
gun night thinking
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers can carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.
thinking problem scales
The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.
fighting pay had-enough
Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.