“ Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. Charles Stross
“ There is probably no way of explaining Project Koschei, or XK-PLUTO, or MK-NIGHTMARE, or the gates, without watering them down into just another weapons system -- which they are not. Weapons may have… Charles Stross
“ The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318) Charles Stross
“ In the distance, the cat hears the sound of lobster minds singing in the void, a distant feed streaming from their cometary home as it drifts silently out through the asteroid belt, en route to a chil… Charles Stross
“ 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… Charles Stross
“ To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Charles Stross
“ The food’s very good, I offer defensively. It’s not that—she gazes past my shoulder—it’s the culture. It’s very Californian. I wasn’t expecting the rot to have reached London yet. We are Bay Aryans fr… Charles Stross
“ Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too: This is its third body, and it's getting more realistically un… Charles Stross
“ Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. Charles Stross
“ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager. Charles Stross
“ The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. Charles Stross
“ There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger. Charles Stross
“ NASA are idiots. They want to send canned primates to Mars! Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on the table: Mars is just dumb mass at the bottom of a gravity well; the… 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
