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Charles Stross
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in Leeds, England, The United Kingdom
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November 2011
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The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)
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2004
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Accelerando
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2005
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
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2003
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The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2)
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2006
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The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)
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2010
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The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4)
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2012
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Halting State (Halting State, #1)
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2007
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Glasshouse
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2006
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The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5)
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2014
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
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2002
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A quiet patch ...
So, I had my second round of eye surgery, and it worked fine. I got a short distance lens, leaving me myopic, which was expected, and I've booked an opthalmology appointment for the earliest possible date post-surgery (in mid-May, the eye needs to settle for six weeks post-op). In the meantime, I'm without visual correction.
And guess what? My vision is changing. My left eye is increasingly myopic,
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More in Sadness than in Anger
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Tom wrote: "I guess our fault is that we lack the imagination to truly fathom the depths of corruption and depravity some people have as a way of life
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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
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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
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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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