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Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism at worst, it's being unoriginal.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.
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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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Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.
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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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Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
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Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
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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'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
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The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
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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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I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
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--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.
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Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
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Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.
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A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
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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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The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is doormat.
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I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.
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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'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).
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