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Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn’t dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I’m not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a fa...

Charles Stross

Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn’t dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I’m not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a fa...

Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).

Charles Stross

Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).

About Author
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964) is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy. Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. Between 1994 and 2004, he was also an active writer for the magazine Computer Shopper and was responsible for its monthly Linux column. He stopped writing for the magazine to devote more time to novels. However, he continues to publish freelance articles on the Internet.

When a customer clicks through the license conditions to play the game, they’re agreeing to add their phone as a node in a distributed server. More players equal more servers—not for themselves, I mig...

Charles Stross

When a customer clicks through the license conditions to play the game, they’re agreeing to add their phone as a node in a distributed server. More players equal more servers—not for themselves, I mig...

The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners wearing gang colors and terrorizing the neighbors.

Charles Stross

The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on street corners wearing gang colors and terrorizing the neighbors.

The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)

Charles Stross

The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)

Tags: rapture of the nerds, singularity

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Charles Stross

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Tags: religious experience

One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you’re in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring fr...

Charles Stross

One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the next you’re in a screaming death-spiral with flames pouring fr...

History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliabi...

Charles Stross

History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliabi...

Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner. For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born into an infinite, hostile universe and destined from birth to be nothing more than fodder f...

Charles Stross

Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner. For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born into an infinite, hostile universe and destined from birth to be nothing more than fodder f...

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she’s still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don’t understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dri...

Charles Stross

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she’s still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don’t understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dri...

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness, Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. You're as stupid as it's possible for an intelligent species to be - there being no evolutionary pressur...

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness, Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. You're as stupid as it's possible for an intelligent species to be - there being no evolutionary pressur...

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Tags: self awareness

Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who’s never seen a television before. Because it’s not a TV. It’s a flat-screen PC ru...

Charles Stross

Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who’s never seen a television before. Because it’s not a TV. It’s a flat-screen PC ru...

There are one and a half billion Muslims on this Earth. A billion and a half Chinese communists, a billion Indian Hindu elephant-worshippers. One point two billion Catholics, misled by the Vatican. An...

Charles Stross

There are one and a half billion Muslims on this Earth. A billion and a half Chinese communists, a billion Indian Hindu elephant-worshippers. One point two billion Catholics, misled by the Vatican. An...

Summer in England   THOSE WORDS ARE SUPPOSED TO CONJURE UP HALCYON SUNNY afternoons; the smell of new-mown hay, little old ladies on bicycles pedaling past the village green on their way to the church...

Charles Stross

Summer in England   THOSE WORDS ARE SUPPOSED TO CONJURE UP HALCYON SUNNY afternoons; the smell of new-mown hay, little old ladies on bicycles pedaling past the village green on their way to the church...

Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention.

Charles Stross

Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention.

Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:

Charles Stross

Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:

[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of...

Charles Stross

[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of...

If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint—

Charles Stross

If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint—

I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand what they’d got themselves into, but you young ones . . . ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, bu...

Charles Stross

I know just how devoted to this organisation you are. Draftees back in my day used to understand what they’d got themselves into, but you young ones . . . ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, bu...