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You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
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I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
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Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism at worst, it's being unoriginal.
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Can I remember I remember lots, I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.
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Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.
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Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
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