tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19895507242995863782012-01-11T14:19:25.372+10:30About the work of science fiction and fantasy writer Charles Stross.Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.comBlogger2571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-62488803337540984182012-01-11T14:18:00.002+10:302012-01-11T14:19:25.382+10:30

"I'm going to use some of his mojo as a jumping off point for asking: what is the world going to look like in 2032? And in 2092?It's an important question. I expect to be around in 2032, albeit somewhat more creaky (I'll be 68) — the state of the world in 2032 is a matter of personal interest. By 2092 ... well, if I'm still alive in 2092 there will have been medical breakthroughs, because I'd be

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"The first thing to note is that there's more than one way to do it. Which is to say: worldbuilding in SF and fantasy is by definition a divergent process, because no two people are going to come up with the same visualization even if you give them the same goal ("you're going to write a space opera in which our hero, raised by poor but honest folks on a small farming planet, goes forth to

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"One of the unusual features of SF and fantasy genre literature is that they rely on worldbuilding to an unusual degree. (I note in passing that the SF Encyclopedia doesn't have an entry for worldbuilding yet, hence the wikipedia definition.)When we write fiction in the realist mode, set in the present day, we can rely on the author and reader's shared experience of the world they live in to

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"What can we do with zombies that is different? I have an idea. Postulate a near-future setting, for values of "near future" approximating 20-30 years hence. A cure for cellular senescence is found, and it's cheap. One injection, and your physical condition gradually reverts to where you were at age 20, over a period of years. It's not a miracle cure: it won't re-grow lost tissues, it doesn't

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-80252751776225232412011-08-30T22:51:00.003+09:302011-08-30T22:55:10.600+09:30

"Charlie discusses Knuth, 3D printers and the law, Bitcoin and the future of publishing." 4.5 out of 5

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-6799692515924157502011-08-30T22:51:00.002+09:302011-08-30T22:54:16.886+09:30

"In the final part of the Q&A, Charlie talks about e-books and DRM, different companies' responses to DMCA takedown notices, how writers are paid and compares text editors." 4.5 out of 5

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-66429821014706515832011-08-30T22:44:00.001+09:302011-08-30T22:47:04.683+09:30

The first part of Charles Stross' question and answer session after his reading. 4.5 out of 5

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-20636496477989767672011-08-17T15:41:00.001+09:302011-08-17T15:43:05.697+09:30

"Unlike you, I am not a security professional. However, we probably share a common human trait, namely that none of us enjoy looking like a fool in front of a large audience. I therefore chose the title of my talk to minimize the risk of ridicule: if we should meet up in 2061, much less in the 26th century, you’re welcome to rib me about this talk. Because I’ll be happy to still be alive to rib.

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-11168259894631914522011-07-15T18:59:00.000+09:302011-07-15T19:00:04.723+09:30

"How do you run a complex society that relies on most people staying within agreed behavioural limits most of the time, if your legal system is not merely broken but *can’t be fixed* because it’s based on false assumptions?"3.5 out of 5http://www.orbitbooks.net/2011/07/15/crime-and-punishment/

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-69950961371225733002011-07-09T12:56:00.001+09:302011-07-09T12:58:35.643+09:30

"One of the hoariest of science fictional archetypes is the idea of the artificial intelligence — be it the tin man robot servant, or the murderous artificial brain in a box that is HAL 9000. And it’s not hard to see the attraction of AI to the jobbing SF writer. It’s a wonderful tool for exploring ideas about the nature of identity. It’s a great adversary or threat (‘War Games’, ‘The Forbin

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-18768434424438174792011-07-01T18:05:00.000+09:302011-07-01T18:08:05.829+09:30

"Who, five years ago, would have predicted that we’d have had a global banking crisis, a wave of democratic revolutions in the Middle East, a black President of the United States, and three nuclear meltdowns in Japan? It sounds like the back story for a bad technothriller. On the other hand, I don’t see a technothriller author as being likely to predict a 1970s fashion revival, vinyl 45s making a

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-52188776359128773012011-07-01T10:36:00.001+09:302011-07-01T10:39:15.948+09:30

"Yes, I know witchcraft accusations are a major problem in some parts of the world even today: and there's a 1950s cold war replay between India and Pakistan, with hundreds of H-bombs on each side and a hot line between New Delhi and Islamabad. But witch hunting is passé in New England and Scotland and the Germanies, and nobody really expects Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama to start playing

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-15285986007649896372011-06-26T23:24:00.002+09:302011-06-26T23:25:22.218+09:30

"Short version: Santa Claus doesn't exist.Long version:I'm going to take it as read that you've read Vernor Vinge's essay on the coming technological singularity (1993), are familiar with Hans Moravec's concept of mind uploading, and know about Nick Bostrom's Simulation argument. If not, stop right now and read them before you continue with this piece. Otherwise you're missing out on the

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-49988749527243591332011-06-26T23:09:00.000+09:302011-06-26T23:10:04.874+09:30

"Here's another game it's useful to learn how to play if you want to write near-future science fiction: spot the Existential Threat.An existential threat (for purposes of this thought experiment) is some phenomenon or activity — it may be natural or may be human-contrived — that threatens, in ascending order of threatliness, the survival of (1) technological civilization, (2) the human species

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-62832358266931842362011-06-18T17:59:00.000+09:302011-06-18T18:00:34.220+09:30

"The fab's still warm from that bampot Malc's job, so you start by stuffing fresh cans of feedstock up its arse—this job's a hybrid, multiple plastics in the same structure and a skeleton made using the special brew that's been doing the rounds these past couple of months. The work-space is clean, and there's no crap lying around from the last run, which is good, and it's big enough that if you

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-70511192107914843672011-06-12T13:53:00.000+09:302011-06-12T13:54:35.977+09:30

"The Gnome chuckles, a quiet hiccuping noise like a vomiting cat. "I take your point." He necks another mouthful of beer. "And is business good?""Don't be daft, Adam." You switch off the pad. "I've only been out two months; my mobie's running six different kinds of Polis spyware, and I can't even surf for porn without official permission. What do you think business is like?""3.5 out of 5http://

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-63462956131618361432011-06-07T21:57:00.000+09:302011-06-07T21:58:02.546+09:30

"And so you have to drag yourself away from your office for eight hours a month to supervise the kicking of litter-lout ass from the air-conditioned comfort of a control room on the third floor of Fettes Avenue Police HQ. It could be worse: At least they don't expect you to pound the pavement in person. Except Jason McDougall has called you out to do some rare on-site supervision on—A two-wetsuit

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-90797848688907492152011-05-23T21:26:00.001+09:302011-05-23T21:27:52.945+09:30

Sans textual tarnishing.4 out of 5

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-6608326530066913972011-03-31T15:33:00.001+10:302011-03-31T15:33:50.889+10:30

3.5 out of 5

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"Art for the short story "Antibodies" by Charles Stross, in the magazine Robot 52 (2007)"4 out of 5

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-81332115582896686472011-03-31T12:49:00.001+10:302011-03-31T12:53:54.063+10:30

3.5 out of 5

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-2911732749845665102011-03-27T11:16:00.001+10:302011-03-27T11:16:55.302+10:30

"We humans are social hominids, a branch of the broader family of primates that includes the great apes. We appear to have evolved in extended family groups similar to other primate troupes; with language and, later, writing we developed the ability to signal our social context within much larger groups."3.5 out of 5http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/03/helplessly-dominant.html

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-78851735114780812992011-03-12T00:12:00.000+10:302011-03-12T00:13:12.974+10:30

"Five years ago I more or less finished writing "Halting State", although it wasn't published until mid-2007. Around that time, MMOs were getting an increasing amount of interest, and a startup forum/social site called GuildCafe commissioned me to write an article about the next 25 years.While I linked to it from my blog, the original article stayed on GuildCafe's site, but GuildCafe have

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"Sir Fred "Banker" Goodwin is the former chief executive of a certain financial institution, bailed out by the British government at enormous expense a while ago: consequently he's the recipient of a more-than-abstract amount of money that I paid in tax. He also appears to be somewhat litigious, to the point of having taken out a super-injunction banning news media from describing him as the

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-18536049723899501912011-03-04T21:58:00.000+10:302011-03-04T21:59:46.718+10:30

"Antony Funnell: Dr Kevin Grazier, an interplanetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a former science adviser for the TV series Battlestar Galactica and also a certified science fiction nut. No offence of course.Also in today's program, Annalee Newitz from the sci-fi blog i09 and British science fiction writer, Charlie Stross.Now we'd love to hear from you. What do you think? How

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-13475045042505780142011-02-08T13:06:00.001+10:302011-02-08T13:08:32.870+10:30

"Let us postulate a world in which Christian doctrine is actually True — specifically Catholic doctrine.Our hero is a 40-something newspaper editor and investigative journalist with a history. About 20 years ago, while investigating a story in Eastern Europe, he was nearly murdered; a corrupt billionaire oligarch took exception to our hero nosing into his family history and arranged for a minion

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-81336229238956934932011-01-24T19:03:00.001+10:302011-01-24T19:04:55.394+10:30

"The Atrocity Archive — short novel, in which Bob and various other major characters are introduced.The Concrete Jungle — novella, set around 6 months after The Atrocity Archives(These are collected in The Atrocity Archives)The Jennifer Morgue — a novel, set around 3 years after The Concrete JunglePimpf — interstitial short story set within a year of The Jennifer Morgue(These are collected in The

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-43618163121152368652011-01-03T16:31:00.001+10:302011-01-03T16:34:26.697+10:30

"My first typewriter died of metal fatigue when I was 16.I’m not making this up: it was an ultra-compact manual journalist’s typewriter from the 1950s, an Imperial Aristocrat, that my sister had acquired for typing classes at school. I got hold of it aged 12 when she went to university, and hammered it so hard that the wire armatures connecting the keys to the type-arms began snapping. Parts were

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-12622184936061200392010-12-22T11:31:00.000+10:302010-12-22T11:33:04.130+10:30

"We have one faction that is attempting to write software that can generate messages that can pass a Turing test, and another faction that is attempting to write software that can administer an ad-hoc Turing test. Each faction has a strong incentive to beat the other. This is the classic pattern of an evolutionary predator/prey arms race: and so I deduce that if symbol-handling, linguistic

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-14922974931357509762010-12-18T01:52:00.001+10:302010-12-18T01:53:34.167+10:30

"I'm very pleased to announce that my agent, Caitlin Blasdell of Liza Dawson Associates, has negotiated a new deal with Ace, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), for three books to be published in North America in 2012—2014. (This follows next year's forthcoming title, "Rule 34", which is due out in July.)2012's novel will be "The Apocalypse Codex", Laundry Files #4.2013's novel will be (working

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-63596670856376788182010-12-18T01:51:00.000+10:302010-12-18T01:52:20.549+10:30

"I'm very pleased to announce that my agent, Caitlin Blasdell of Liza Dawson Associates, has negotiated a new deal with Ace, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), for three books to be published in North America in 2012—2014. (This follows next year's forthcoming title, "Rule 34", which is due out in July.)2012's novel will be "The Apocalypse Codex", Laundry Files #4.2013's novel will be (working

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-54463678871931938852010-12-18T01:50:00.001+10:302010-12-18T01:51:34.551+10:30

"I'm very pleased to announce that my agent, Caitlin Blasdell of Liza Dawson Associates, has negotiated a new deal with Ace, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), for three books to be published in North America in 2012—2014. (This follows next year's forthcoming title, "Rule 34", which is due out in July.)2012's novel will be "The Apocalypse Codex", Laundry Files #4.2013's novel will be (working

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-39686862920302938022010-12-17T01:27:00.001+10:302010-12-17T01:28:14.034+10:30

"“What is going on?” I asked.“Apparently we were pulled, with no kindness at all, from hyperspace.”I followed him hastily, while seeing others passing by, at times bumping into us. We walked up and down stairs, through several corridors, and were, sometimes, shaken by what sounded like nearby explosions.“Hyperspace?” I asked again, trying to understand.Charlie looked at me like someone looking at

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-54030402490717122010-12-06T17:36:00.001+10:302010-12-06T17:37:45.896+10:30

"Having said that, we should be able to create a new golden age of utopian visions. A global civilization appears to be emerging for the first time. It's unstable, unevenly distributed, and blindly fumbling its way forward. But we have unprecedented tools for sharing information; slowly developing theories of behavioural economics, cognitive bias, and communications that move beyond the crudely

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-31546762708566388192010-10-28T12:02:00.000+10:302010-10-28T12:03:27.172+10:30

"I am becoming annoyed by the current glut of Steampunk that is being foisted on the SF-reading public via the likes of Tor.com and io9.It's not that I actively dislike steampunk, and indeed I have fond memories of the likes of K. W. Jeter's "Infernal Devices", Tim Powers' "The Anubis Gates", the works of James Blaylock, and other features of the 1980s steampunk scene. I don't have that much to

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-4912868750000576312010-10-26T18:14:00.000+10:302010-10-26T18:15:24.617+10:30

"The working title for this project was "To Boldly Blow: A History of Bodily Fluids in Orbit". (And if Mary Roach wants to grab it and run, I'll be cheering from the bleachers.)The history of the American and Russian manned space programs (and, for all I know, the Chinese manned space program) is all about packing primates into flimsy aluminium cans and throwing them, very hard indeed, into an

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-47901898803367797302010-10-10T12:18:00.001+10:302010-10-10T12:18:56.630+10:30

"Remember those semi-amnesic Great Vampires who roll with the times? They're not total amnesiacs; the most important wisdom of the ages sticks with them. The madness of crowds, for example, is the easiest way to fleece a herd of human sheep. They're sensitive to patterns of human behaviour that no short-lived mayfly human can sense, except in the abstract; this gives them a huge edge. And they

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-74526484446971571602010-10-09T11:40:00.001+10:302010-10-09T11:41:44.072+10:30

"What do you write about?I write science fiction to explore the human condition, under circumstances which are possible, but don't currently apply. Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space. I write more for

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-52434112375324049962010-10-07T23:42:00.000+10:302010-10-07T23:43:08.064+10:30

"Meanwhile, on the other side of the border, the Israeli government and military are fresh from meetings to establish whether a multi-nation Arab attack is imminent. Both sides are extremely jittery; the only question is who pulls the trigger first.Immediate consequence: a sharp border war between Great Britain and Israel.Longer term ...The sudden eruption of 1973 Israel into 1940 isn't going to

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-61377475125783995292010-10-02T01:13:00.000+09:302010-10-02T01:14:32.288+09:30

"My first two published SF novels, "Singularity Sky" and "Iron Sunrise", have a long and tangled history. And I figure it's probably worth (a) explaining why there won't be a third one, and (b) spoilering the plot thread I had kicking around that would have been in the third Eschaton novel if I was going to write it.Let us rewind the clock to 1993, when a much younger version of Charlie was

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-88626647236227631272010-09-29T13:48:00.001+09:302010-09-29T13:48:51.234+09:30

"While positioned well within the frontier of the science fiction marketing category, it is hoped that Merchant Princes will have some appeal to readers from outside the genre. The background concept of "A Family Trade" and sequels echoes both H. Beam Piper's "Paratime" books and L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall", but the plot structure in the first two volumes may appeal to a crossover

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-27560732195886261972010-09-26T14:46:00.001+09:302010-09-26T14:47:25.778+09:30

"Very little of the original material in "Iron Sunrise" made its way into the final published book (which was mostly written in 2001-02). Here's why ...The original first half of "Iron Sunrise" contained numerous items not present in the final published book. In fact, when I picked it up again in 2001, with the goal of turning it into a working sequel to the newly-sold "Singularity Sky", I found

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-43616562473051959382010-09-23T21:10:00.000+09:302010-09-23T21:11:44.401+09:30

"First, machine translation. The following message was posted to a discussion group for users of Shibboleth, a federated internet single-sign-on system. As you may be able to puzzle out, the perplexed (Japanese) user assumed Google Translate would help their technical support request: This is question, engish is faulty therefore the right excused is requested. Thank google to translate to help

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"My working hypothesis to explain the 21st century is that the Tofflers underestimated how pervasive future shock would be. I think somewhere in the range from 15-30% of our fellow hairless primates are currently in the grip of future shock, to some degree. Symptoms include despair, anxiety, depression, disorientation, paranoia, and a desperate search for certainty in lives that are experiencing

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-44345019452598238622010-09-22T12:04:00.001+09:302010-09-22T12:06:06.701+09:30

"A while back I did a series of postings on the topic of Common Misconceptions About Publishing.Here they are: (Updated 12-May-2010)# The publishing industry, and how it's structured# How books are made# What authors sell to publishers# Territories, translations, and foreign rights# Why books are the length they are# "Why did you pick such an awful cover?"# Miscellanea# Lifestyle or Job#

Blue Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090584083476832111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989550724299586378.post-71261242208080202942010-09-22T11:50:00.000+09:302010-09-22T11:51:28.690+09:30

"Heroin is coming west across the Atlantic, from somewhere in the DMZ. In return, Differential Analyzers (early computers) are going east. The OSS want to know why. Cynical veteran Bill is called out of semi-retirement as station officer in Morocco and teamed up with a weird, dreamy wet- behind the ears agent called Phil K: their task is to follow the heroin supply back to its source somewhere

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Either in parts at :- http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/how-i-got-here-in-the-end-my-n.htmlor whole at :-http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/how-i-got-here-in-the-end-my-n.html5 out of 5

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"And it all goes to show just how strange Robert A. Heinlein was.From a devoutly religious upbringing, we have a teenager who threw off religious belief and embraced atheism at a time when this would have been profoundly shocking. From the 1920s we have an enthusiastic practitioner of free love and “companionate” (read: open) marriage—in an age when cohabiting without a marriage license was a

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Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2010.4 out of 5

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"Charlie: Partly it’s because there was a gap of five years between each of the first three books. To avoid ending up with Bob receding into the past, I decided to reposition them so that he’s ageing, roughly in step with wall-clock time (at least for now). In “The Atrocity Archives” he was in his early-to-mid-twenties. By The Jennifer Morgue, he was late twenties. In The Fuller Memorandum he’s

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Mostly about reading gadgets.3.5 out of 5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjERw9ZZFJ4&feature=related

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"Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am. And "The Quantum Thief" is the best first SF novel I've read in many years."4.5 out of 5http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/next-years-hugo-novel-shortlis.html

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From Worldchanging :"ConvergenceIt's even harder to predict the second-order consequences of new technologies when they start merging at the edges, and hybridizing.A modern cellphone is nothing like a late-1980s cellphone. Back then, the cellphone was basically a voice terminal. Today it's as likely as not to be a video and still camera, a GPS navigation unit, have a keyboard for texting, a

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"If you're planning to create a professional presence on the World Wide Web you need to master the tools and tactics the experts use. Treat yourself to a copy of the grand plan with The Web Architect's Handbook and find out how they do it. Basic HTML and graphics techniques will only get you part of the way; when it comes to creating a large web site, different methods are needed. The Web

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"We managed to skeg an interview with none other than Charles Stross, the creator of the Githyanki, Githzerai, Slaadi, and Death Knights. Read on to lann the dark of how these beings came to be, and what their creator is up to all these years later!Compiled by: Dave EdensTo begin with we would all like to thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. As you may know the Gith races have

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"1. Quick! Tell us a little about yourself and The Jennifer Morgue.Must I? Oh very well. The Jennifer Morgue is my latest novel, and it's the second in a series that follow the misadventures of a slashdot-reading sandal-wearing hacker-geek who's fallen into the wrong universe and can't get out. We first met "Bob Howard" (as he calls himself in these stories) in The Atrocity Archives. It turns out

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"We covered all the high points that I suspect listeners will want to hear; space opera, economic genre fiction, gender bending and everything from the status of children in so-called Victorian London to Napoleonic space battles over far-flung planets, from the Cory Doctorow-alike lead character of 'Accelerando' to the status of children in so-called Victorian England. "4 out of 5http://

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"We H. Sapiens Sapiens appear to be an infestation on this planet. After the slow-burning evolution of hominins in Africa, our ancestral populations erupted out into Eurasia in a geological eye-blink, spread into the Americas by way of the Bering land bridge (sea levels being somewhat lower during the ice ages) and finally reaching even the remotest islands of oceania around twelve thousand years

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Excerpt from a Locus interview August 2003."“I can't tell whether or not there's going to be a Singularity. I don't really believe the rapture of the nerds stereotype -- 'we're all going to cyber-heaven, hallelujah!' Rather boosterish. I do believe we're in for a very strange future, as seen on the ten-year timeframe. Ten years ago, a few people were using the Internet as an academic and

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""Charlie was teetering on the precipice of transhumanism for the whole last year," said his friend and collaborator Cory Doctorow. "His lifestyle and cerebral/neurological capabilities had been ramped up through intensive ideation and selective smart-drug use to an exquisite pitch just short of the Singularity. When he laid his hands on that sweet, sweet hunk of hardware, it provided the

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Seiun Award Nomination for Best Foreign Long Fiction, 2010.5 out of 5

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"Back in mid-2008 I mentioned that what I thought was a futuristic-circa-2023 technology for the next novel was too damn close. Slightly more recently, in Living through interesting times, I mentioned that it was becoming near-as-dammit impossible to write near-future SF; I was sore because Bernie Madoff had stolen the plot of my next novel."3.5 out of 5http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static

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"When is science fiction a form of political intervention?That's a tough one!Looking at fiction in the broader sense, it's fairly clear that it can have political repercussions; Orwell's work (from "Animal Farm" and "1984" to the less-well-remembered journalistic indictment, "The Road toWigan Pier") was unequivocally political, and in "1984" he certainly worked with tools from the box labeled "

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Charles StrossDa Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.Vai a: Navigazione, cercaCharles Stross 2005.JPGCharles Stross alla Worldcon 2005 a Glasgow (agosto 2005)Charles David George Stross (Leeds, 18 ottobre 1964) è un autore di fantascienza britannico.Fa farte di una nuova generazione di scrittori di fantascienza britannici specializzati nei sottogeneri della fantascienza hard e della space opera.

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What do others reader of his read, according to this site?4 out of 5http://www.literature-map.com/charles+stross.html

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"This interview was done with Charles Stross back in the late 90’s for Planewalker.com. It was a group effort of the site. Not exactly sure of the date, but it was pre 3rd edition. For those who don’t know, Charles was the creator of some of the signature creatures that were used in the Planescape setting. Githyanki, Githzerai, Slaadi, and the Death Knights. He is an author with some pretty

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1. Publication historyThe githzerai were created by Charles Stross for the Fiend Folio Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign (1981). [1] They were originally introduced as monsters, but they are a playable character race in the Planescape campaign setting, and have been detailed further in D&D 3.0 and 3.5.1. 1. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)The githzerai first appears in

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"Firstly, the Apple vs. Adobe vendetta gets even nastier, with a public letter from Steve Jobs explaining why Adobe's Flash multimedia format will not ever be allowed into the garden of pure ideology that is the iPhone/iPad fork of OSX.Secondly, Hewlett-Packard are buying Palm, apparently for Palm's WebOS — with rumours of plans to deploy a range of WebOS tablets to rival the iPad — at the same

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Charles StrossUit Wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedieGa naar: navigatie, zoekenCharles Stross tijdens de Worldcon 2005 in GlasgowCharles David George Stross (Leeds, 18 oktober 1964) is een Brits sciencefiction- en fantasy-schrijver.Stross heeft universitaire titels in farmacie en informatica. Hij werkte als apotheker, technisch auteur, programmeur en freelance journalist. Zijn eerste SF-verhaal

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A short slightly fuzzy video.3.5 out of 5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7LHhIEeCc

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Anticipation World Con, audio recording of the discussion.4 out of 5http://cluebytwelve.net/anticipation/Stross-Krugman%202009-08-06.mp3

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A convention panel about the topic.3.5 out of 5http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/03/video-alastair-reynolds-vernor-vinge-karl-schroeder-and-charles-stross-discuss-the-singularity/

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About Accelerando and downloads:"Stross went on to explain that he has 'been on the internet since 1989, and I've been increasingly annoyed by the failure of the publishing industry in general to understand and use it effectively. What keeps people in publishing - as writers, editors or booksellers - is the practice of putting books in front of the public. One tool publishers have become

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"cstross: Question: 2006ade: Charles Stross: You skip forward in time considerably with story number four, which picks up with Manfred's daughter Amber. At first I was disappointed to see Macx go, but now I'm falling in love with her. Why the generational jump and will we do this again in part three? Any chance dad (or a part of him) will make a reappearance?Answer: I structured ACCELERANDO as a

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"The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances. The scriptwriters and producers have thrown away the key tool that makes SF interesting and useful in the first place, by relegating "tech" to a token afterthought rather than an integral part of plot and characterization. What

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Starwisp An small interstellar probe using a light-sail for propulsion. Manufactured by Airbus-Cisco years earlier, the Field Circus is a hick backwater, isolated from the mainstream of human culture, its systems complexity limited by mass: The destination lies nearly three light-years from Earth, and even with high acceleration and relativistic cruise speeds, the one-kilogram starwisp and

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"So, let's look ahead to 2030.We can confidently predict that by then, computer games will have been around for nearly sixty years; anyone under eighty will have grown up with them. The median age of players may well be the same as the median age of the general population. And this will bring its own challenges to game designers. Sixty year olds have different needs and interests from

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"Consider a carbon crystal, created (and edited) one atom at a time by nanomachinery; there are two stable isotopes of carbon, and we can use a Carbon-12 atom to represent a binary 0 and a Carbon-13 atom to represent a binary 1. ONE PETABYTE EQUALS 1024 terabytes1,048,576 gigabytes1,073,741,824 megabytesOne gram of this substance could store 10 to the power 21 bytes (887,808 petabytes) - the

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"Lawrence – What were your aims when writing your latest novel, Halting State?Charles Stross: Halting State is an attempt to explore the very real virtual realities that are now coming into existence. VR was meat and drink for SF from 1984 — with William Gibson’s Neuromancer — until some time after Neal Stephenson published Snow Crash, but it hasn’t had a lot of love since then. Which is odd,

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"But for all the consistency of his intelligence, he has always made a point of working in as many of science fiction's diverse sub-genres as possible, resisting the pressures of a commercial genre to repeat a formula. "I decided a long time ago that I wanted to write full-time," he explains. "But because I get bored easily, I kicked back pretty hard against the demand that I do more of the same.

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"Speculative Fiction author with a bent for Post Cyberpunk work dealing with posthumanism and The Singularity, but who also has a vast array of other fiction out there. Early in his career, he invented several iconic Dungeons And Dragons monsters, including the Death Knight, githyanki and githzerai, and slaadi. He's also on record as being responsible for bringing Footnote Fever to

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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born Leeds, 1964-10-18) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy. This article on an author is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it.[edit]SourcedAnnette's communiqué is anodyne; a giggling confession off camera (shower-curtain rain in the background) that the famous Manfred

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Fantasy Best of 2005 : Snowball's Chance - Charles Stross4 out of 5

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Year's Best Fantasy 07 : Pimpf - Charles Stross4 out of 5

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SF Best of 2004 : Elector - Charles Stross4.5 out of 5

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SF Best of 2003 : Flowers from Alice - Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross4 out of 5

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SF Best of 2002 : Tourist - Charles Stross5 out of 5

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SF and F Best 02 : Trunk and Disorderly - Charles Stross4 out of 5

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Best Short Novels 2005 : The Concrete Jungle - Charles Stross4 out of 5

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Year's Best SF 09 : Rogue Farm - Charles Stross3.5 out of 5

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Year's Best SF 08 : Halo - Charles Stross5 out of 5

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Year's Best Science Fiction 21 : Rogue Farm - Charles Stross3.5 out of 5

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Year's Best Science Fiction 20 : Halo - Charles Stross5 out of 5

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Year's Best Science Fiction 19 : Lobsters - Charles Stross5 out of 5

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Year's Best Science Fiction 18 : A Colder War - Charles Stross3.5 out of 5

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Year's Best Science Fiction 18 : Antibodies - Charles Stross5 out of 5

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Variant title for Maxo Signals.3 out of 5

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Publications: Odyssey, Issue 3, (1998, Liz Holliday, publ. Partizan Press, £3.00, 70pp, A4, magazine) Cover: Martina PilcerovaUnseen.

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A piece talking about the evolution of this latest collection."The speed of the short-story publication cycle brings me to the second reason I write them: I get to play with new ideas in a way I can’t manage at novel length. Novels are huge, cumbersome projects that take a long time to bolt together; in contrast, short stories are a quick vehicle for trying out something new, the fiction writer’s

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An essay about the evolution of spies in fiction, which is at the end of The Jennifer Morgue.4.5 out of 5

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