Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America. Charles Stross Read Quote
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time. Charles Stross Read Quote
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn’t preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed. Charles Stross Read Quote
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions. Charles Stross Read Quote
I think that if there’s one key insight science can bring to fiction, it’s that fiction – the study of the human condition – needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn’t immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever. Charles Stross Read Quote
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. Charles Stross Read Quote
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I’m not entirely at ease with that self-description. Charles Stross Read Quote
The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you’re going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for. Charles Stross Read Quote
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit – but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems! Charles Stross Read Quote
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That’s attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect. Charles Stross Read Quote
