Charles Stross

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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born Leeds, October 18, 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.

Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod and Liz Williams. Obvious inspirations include Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, among other cyberpunk and postcyberpunk writers.

His first published short story, "The Boys", appeared in Interzone in 1987: his first novel, Singularity Sky was published by Ace in 2003 and was nominated for the Hugo Award. A collection of his short stories, Toast: And Other Rusted Futures appeared in 2002. Subsequent short stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and other awards. His novella "The Concrete Jungle" (available online) won the Hugo award for its category in 2005. Most recently, Accelerando (also available online) won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the year's best science fiction novel, and was on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Stross published some role-playing game articles for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the White Dwarf magazine. Some of his creatures, such as the death knight, githyanki (borrowed from George R. R. Martin's book, Dying of the Light), githzerai, and slaad were later published in the Fiend Folio expansion and are still popular among gamers.

In addition to working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author, freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist at different times. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science.

Rogue Farm, a machinima film based on his 2003 short story of the same title, debuted in August 2004.

He is one of the Guests of Honour at Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in March 2008.

Contents 1 Books 1.1 Standalones 1.2 Eschaton series 1.3 The "Bob Howard" Series 1.4 Merchant Princes series 2 External links 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Interviews 2.3 Misc

[edit] Books

[edit] Standalones

• Scratch Monkey, unpublished, 1993
• The Web Architect's Handbook (Non-fiction), published 1996, ISBN 0-201-87735-X
• Toast: And Other Rusted Futures, published 2002, ISBN 1-58715-413-7
• Accelerando, published 2005, ISBN 0-441-01284-1
• Glasshouse, published 2006, ISBN 0-441-01403-8
• Missile Gap, forthcoming 2007, ISBN 1-59606-058-1
• Halting State, forthcoming 2007
• (title to be announced), forthcoming 2008

[edit] Eschaton series

• Singularity Sky, published 2003, ISBN 0-441-01072-5
• Iron Sunrise, published 2004, ISBN 1-84149-335-X

[edit] The "Bob Howard" Series

• The Atrocity Archives, published 2004, ISBN 1-930846-25-8 (contains the Hugo Award-winning novella "The Concrete Jungle")
• The Jennifer Morgue, published 2006, ISBN 1-930846-44-4

[edit] Merchant Princes series

• The Family Trade, published 2004, ISBN 0-7653-0929-7
• The Hidden Family, published 2005, ISBN 0-7653-1347-2
• The Clan Corporate, published 2006, ISBN 0-7653-0930-0
• The Merchant's Revolution (provisional title), forthcoming 2007
• (title to be announced), forthcoming 2008

[edit] External links

[edit] Fiction

• Accelerando The complete text of Stross' novel, released as a free ebook under a Creative Commons license.
• "A Colder War" is available online at Infinity Plus
• Charle's Stross's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online

[edit] Interviews

• Interview conducted by Lou Anders at Infinity Plus
• Interview conducted by Nick Gevers at Science Fiction Weekly
• Interview extract from an interview in Locus
• Interview conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com
• Interview conducted by Martin Empson for Socialist Review, full text here.
• Mini Inverview conducted by John Joseph Adams for SCI FI WIRE

[edit] Misc

• Official Homepage and blog
• Charles Stross at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Family Trade has been coded by StoryCode
• Golden Gryphon Press official site - About The Atrocity Archives
• Golden Gryphon Press official site - About The Jennifer Morgue