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Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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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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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 write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
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What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
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I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)
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Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.
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I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.
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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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The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is doormat.
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Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
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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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Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them librarians.
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The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
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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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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.
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All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
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Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
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I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
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