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Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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Science Fiction Writer
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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've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that just works than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.
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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 have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
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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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Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.
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You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.
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All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
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Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism at worst, it's being unoriginal.
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I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
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Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
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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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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 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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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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Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
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My favourite movie is: Dr Strangelove. (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
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The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
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I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
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