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Charles Stross
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in Leeds, England, The United Kingdom
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November 2011
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The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)
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2004
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47 editions
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Accelerando
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2005
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10 editions
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Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
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2003
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36 editions
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The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2)
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2006
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43 editions
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The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3)
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2010
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24 editions
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Halting State (Halting State, #1)
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2007
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39 editions
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The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4)
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2012
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Glasshouse
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2006
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The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5)
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2014
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Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2)
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2004
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They don't make readers like they used to
(This essay is late because I came home from worldcon with a wonderful prize--COVID19. It was a very mild dose and I'm better now but it put everything on hold for about a week.)
In the past I've blogged about how difficult it is to write the near future, ten years out (I used to have a working recipe); and then more recently about how the error bars on such predictions are getting longer: and most
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You're not missing anything: I slipped a decimal place in my mental arithmetic! (And it's a decade or so too late to fix ...)
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Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
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Author here: please note that the reviewers leaving a 5-* and 3-* review are lying. I haven't finished writing the book yet—it's a work in progress—and it CANNOT be published before mid-2024 (or, more likely, 2025). Update in 2024: book won't be finish ...more |
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Red wrote: "Yes, the Tories will be going down, but the incoming, values-free, "vote for us 'cos we're not the other guys" lot are not filling me with
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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.)”
― Overtime
― Overtime
“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
― The Atrocity Archives
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