Charles Stross
Charles Stross
Charles David George "Charlie" Strossis an award-winning British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1964
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The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
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The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!
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Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
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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.
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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.
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I was walking around for a week or so trying to remember not to talk about it. And, you know, keeping good news to yourself isn't always easy.
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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!
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
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Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.