Charles Stross Quotes - Page 5

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• I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

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  Degrees, Attention, Magazines

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

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  Games, Planning, Designer

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

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  War, Believe, Writing

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• I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).

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  Rpgs, Groups, Gone

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Three, Firsts, Novel

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• I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.

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  Tea, Keyboards, Drink

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

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  Writing, Giving, Window

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• I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

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  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

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  Writing, Easy

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• For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

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  Awards, Style, Trying

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• Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

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  Book, Order, Use

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• I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

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  Couple, Hands, Days Off

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• If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

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  Writing, Gone, Hints

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• While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

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  Mistake, Block, Sweat

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• 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?

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  Thinking, Worry, Political

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• Biggest influence: my mother.

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  Mother, Influence

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• If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

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  Writing, Ideas, Who Cares

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• I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.

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  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

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  Jobs, Reading, Editors

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

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  Past, Years, Drs

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• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

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  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

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