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
thinking worry political
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?
thinking style use
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
book writing thinking
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.
book thinking pirate
Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?
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 agony ethical-standards
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.
thinking people guy
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.
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.
writing years long
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.
mother influence
Biggest influence: my mother.
book writing firsts
Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.
people littles controversy
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
book reading writing
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
labels trouble doormat
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".