364 Quotes by Charles Stross

This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as a software-controlled look-to-kill multiheaded basilisk. To.

Everything – the entire 400-megabuck investment, ten years of Company black operations – depends on what happens in the next few hours.

Reasons for cancellation order: 1. Baby-eating aquatic faerie equines do not exist.

The vampire has just realized she’s in a meeting populated exclusively by spooks and people who go bump in the night.

Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.

I don’t think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they’d cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I’ll burn it.

An important factor to note is that it’s rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

We loved them individually so much that we betrayed them collectively.