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Charles Stross - Scratch Monkey
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Scratch Monkey is the early Charles Stross novel which never was, or, at least, hasn't been so far. It was written 1988-93, and nearly saw the light of day in 94, but things didn't go to plan, as Charlie ...
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Created on 12 October 2010
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Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archives
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This is Charles Stross' first published novel – and to start, let's just make clear that it's a cracker. 'The Atrocity Archives' is a Secret Service/Spy story, with a heavily occult slant (it's all science, ...
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Created on 30 June 2010
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Charles Stross - Toast
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Toast is Charles Stross' first published work of fiction. He wrote the introduction in 2000, it hit the shelves in 2002; and in 2006 it was released into the wilds of the Interwebs on a Creative Commons ...
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Created on 15 June 2010
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Charles Stross – Wireless
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Here are a few thoughts on Wireless, a collection of short stories by Charles Stross, a book a received from Little, Brown Books for review (thanks). This is, like every other collection of short stories ...
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Created on 28 April 2010
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Charles Stross - Singularity Sky
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A few words of praise for Charles Stross' first published novel, Singularity Sky, which left me positively surprised – for a first novel this is highly readable and in parts 'undownputable' (urgh, nu-English), ...
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Created on 11 February 2010
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Charles Stross - Halting State
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Here are my thoughts on Halting State, a near-future, online-gaming-detective-spooks romp by Charles Stross, at his social-trends-of-technology-extrapolating, the-geeks-will-inherit-the-earth best. The ...
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Created on 17 January 2010
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Charles Platt – The Silicon Man
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The Silicon Man by Charles Platt is a very thorough treaty on the foibles of ‘Uploading’ people (in the vein of Charles Stross’ Accelerando or other books on a similar topic…), mixed with a good old detective ...
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Created on 19 April 2013
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Charles Stoss - Iron Sunrise
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Iron Sunrise, the second book in Charles Stross' Timelike Diplomacy series (as it is now known) starts with a bang. A big one. When the planet of Moscow, a happy, democratic, quite enlightened (if slightly ...
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Created on 02 May 2010
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Lavie Tidhar - The Violent Century
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... only in references or similarities; Charles Stross’ The Annihilation Score is an obvious comparison (Superheroes, UK Secret Agency, Shell Games…) but as clearly not an influence given the publication timelines; ...
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Created on 07 February 2020
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Peter Watts – The Freeze-Frame Revolution
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... a near-panopticon, really raised comparisons with Charles Stross' Glasshouse for me.
As mentioned before, we get to see everything from Sunday's 1st person viewpoint – full story exhibition, her inner ...
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Created on 17 July 2018
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Ken MacLeod - The Corporation Wars: Dissidence
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... don’t agree on what is ‘real’ and what is ‘sim’, never mind what the relevant distinction is. Charles Stross’ Alien Snail, decanted into a body in physical reality for the first time, did not have the ...
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Created on 20 July 2016
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Ian Whates (Ed.) - Fables from the Fountain
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... Charles Stross, James Lovegrove, Adam Roberts, Liz Williams, or Ian Watson here. You might have heard of the odd one of them?
Fables from the Fountain is edited by Ian Whates - himself an SF writer, ...
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Created on 06 January 2015
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Peter Watts – Beyond the Rift
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... We’re being led astray in a Frederic Brown manner, but with an ambiance feeling more reminiscent of Charles Stross’ Scratch Monkey, for some reason. Sterling stuff.
The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald ...
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Created on 19 December 2013
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Ken MacLeod - The Star Fraction
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... down on you from orbit ... Like Charles Stross' Accelerando this book has, seen in retrospect (not something that is obvious at the beginning) no human central protagonist (sorry Manny, sorry Moh!), and, ...
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Created on 14 March 2010
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