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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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	The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 27,754 ratings — published 2004 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accelerando 3.87 avg rating — 22,659 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 16,247 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 15,148 ratings — published 2006 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 12,786 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4) 4.18 avg rating — 11,522 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halting State (Halting State, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 12,549 ratings — published 2007 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glasshouse 3.88 avg rating — 11,789 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 9,563 ratings — published 2014 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 9,479 ratings — published 2002 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Charles Stross answered idiffer's question: What is the status of Ghost Engine? Latest mention I could find was early 2023, where you were going through the second draft... Thanks in advance. It's in the works! The next book due out is "The Regicide Report", in early 2026. "Ghost Engine" is about 80% finished … but I got stale, so I've been taking time out since early April to work on a new project that bit me and wouldn't let go, set in See Full Answer
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Charles Stross made a comment on Nirkatze’s review of A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4) " I didn't choose the additional stories to round out the book: that was an editorial decision. (My preferred choice would have been "Equoid".) Never mi ...more "
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“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”
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“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.)”
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“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

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