364 Quotes by Charles Stross

She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every insterstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.

They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.

A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?

CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN IS THE CODE NAME FOR THE END OF the world.You might have noticed that Mo and I have no children. We don't even have a pet cat, the consolation prize of the overworked urban middle classes. There's a reason for this. Would you want to have children, if you knew for a fact that in a couple of years you might have to cut their throats for their own good?

Ungern Sternberg died in September 1921, executed by a Bolshevik firing squad after Trotsky's soldiers captured him." Choudhury taps his folio again, looking severe: "He was a very bad man, you know! He had a habit of burning paperwork.

I stared at him. “You’re a bat, Rudi! She’s a mermaid. What were you thinking?

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!