Charles Stross
Autor(a) de The Atrocity Archives
About the Author
Born in Leeds, England, Charles Stross knew he wanted to be a science fiction writer from the age of six. Despite this, he went to university in London and qualified as a Pharmacist. He made his first writing sale to Interzone in 1986, and sold about a dozen stories elsewhere throughout the late mostrar mais 1980s and early 1990s. He now writes fiction full-time, has sold about 16 novels, has won one Hugo award and been nominated nearly a dozen times, and has been translated into about a dozen languages. He is the author of the Merchant Princes series. His latest book, The Revolution Business, is the fifth in this series. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Charles Stross
A Boy and His God 5 exemplares
Bear Trap 5 exemplares
Dechlorinating the Moderator 4 exemplares
The Boys 4 exemplares
Ship of Fools 4 exemplares
Flowers from Alice 3 exemplares
Extracts from the Club Diary 3 exemplares
Generation Gap 3 exemplares
Toast A Con Report [short story] 3 exemplares
The Midlist Bombers 2 exemplares
Remade 2 exemplares
Ancient of Days 2 exemplares
SEAQ and Destroy 2 exemplares
Examination Night 2 exemplares
Tarkovsky's Cut 2 exemplares
Something Sweet 2 exemplares
The Reavers and the Dead 2 exemplares
Big Brother Iron 2 exemplares
Red, Hot and Dark 2 exemplares
Message in a Time Capsule 2 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2003 1 exemplar
Different Flesh 1 exemplar
Collected Short Stories 1 exemplar
Escape 1 exemplar
Love Me 1 exemplar
A conventional boy 1 exemplar
Toast, and Other Stories 1 exemplar
Warcrime 1 exemplar
Halting State (Ace Science Fiction) by Stross, Charles(June 24, 2008) Mass Market Paperback 1 exemplar
Police On My Back [novelette] 1 exemplar
Year Zero 1 exemplar
Black Sky 1 exemplar
Hladnije od pakla 1 exemplar
In the DreamTime [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Lambing Season 1 exemplar
How I Got Here In the End 1 exemplar
The Jennifer Morgue - Part 2 1 exemplar
Japan 2007 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004) — Contribuidor — 529 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 516 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 471 exemplares
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 359 exemplares
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Contribuidor — 123 exemplares
More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (2017) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (2010) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Twelve Tomorrows: Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (all new 2016 edition) (2015) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Best of the Rest 2: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 1998 (1999) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Stross, Charles David George
- Outros nomes
- Davidson, Charles (pen name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1964-10-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Ocupações
- pharmacist
journalist (freelance)
computer programmer - Organizações
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (2008)
E.E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (2008) - Agente
- Caitlin Blasdell
Membros
Discussions
The Laundry Files by Charles Stross em The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2)
THE DEEP ONES: "Overtime" by Charles Stross em The Weird Tradition (Dezembro 2017)
THE DEEP ONES: "A Colder War" by Charles Stross em The Weird Tradition (Junho 2015)
Tried "The Atrocity Archives"? em Weird Fiction (Julho 2011)
Críticas
Listas
Books Read in 2022 (13)
Best Cyberpunk (1)
io9 Book Club (1)
Our digital age (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 115
- Also by
- 69
- Membros
- 40,377
- Popularidade
- #437
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 1,439
- ISBN
- 452
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 221
Stross actually manages to work his limited exploration into the plot - the first by largely dealing with a society that has banned cornucopia machines (along with nanotechnology and other exciting plot twists); and the second by positing a mysterious god-like entity called The Eschaton that will obliterate you if you attempt any causality-violating time travel (the only interesting kind). While these are interesting devices, I kinda felt that they were obscuring even more interesting possibilities. A bit more exploration of The Eschaton would have helped, but maybe that's for later books.
There were quite a few stabs at relating to genuine science, which worked, and the plot did have some nice touches. It kept my interest, but I hoped for something a little more ambitious.
Overall I was reminded of The Diamond Age, but while that book's scope was smaller, its ambition was still larger.… (mais)