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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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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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The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.
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No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants others are planned in minute detail.
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Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
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The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the piracy problem is massively over-rated.
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I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
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I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
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Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.
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I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.
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I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.
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People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.
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Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
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All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
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Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
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Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
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I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.
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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
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