Charles Stross





Charles Stross

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October 18, 1964 in Leeds, England, The United Kingdom

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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.

Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams and Richard Morgan.

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For reasons I hope to be able to explain next week, I'm going to be thin on the ground for the next six days—well okay, I'm going to be at Book Expo America, one of the two biggest English-language publishing trade shows.



This has the happy side-effect that I will be absent from the UK during the Queen's 60th anniversary, and thus missing out on the orgy of self-congratulatory forelock-tugging a...

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Average rating: 3.75 · 32,846 ratings · 3,499 reviews · 38 distinct works
Accelerando
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 4,225 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions
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Halting State (Halting Stat...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 3,165 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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The Atrocity Archives (Laun...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2,972 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 2,910 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Glasshouse
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 2,771 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions
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The Jennifer Morgue (Laundr...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,873 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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The Fuller Memorandum (Laun...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,361 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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Saturn's Children
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 1,636 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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The Family Trade (The Merch...
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 1,431 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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More books by Charles Stross…
The Atrocity Archives The Jennifer Morgue The Fuller Memorandum The Apocalypse Codex
Laundry Files (4 books)
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3.9974594213126324 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7,085 ratings
Singularity Sky Iron Sunrise
Eschaton (2 books)
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3.767393561786085 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 4,815 ratings
Halting State Rule 34
Halting State (2 books)
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3.6688984881209503 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 4,630 ratings
The Family Trade The Hidden Family The Clan Corporate The Merchants' War The Revolution Business Trade of Queens
The Merchant Princes (6 books)
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3.401436031331593 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 4,596 ratings

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“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”
Charles Stross

“Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”
Charles Stross

“--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”
Charles Stross, Saturn's Children

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