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For a sampler, you could try my short story collection Wireless. Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)
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I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.
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