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While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, do I want to be remembered for this? before I get to the point of spending a year on it.
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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.
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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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You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
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I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.
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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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I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.
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