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Charles Stross

Autor(a) de The Atrocity Archives

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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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Obras por Charles Stross

The Atrocity Archives (2001) 3,449 exemplares
Accelerando (2005) 3,311 exemplares
Singularity Sky (2003) 2,973 exemplares
Halting State (2007) 2,565 exemplares
Glasshouse (2006) 2,263 exemplares
The Jennifer Morgue (2006) 2,103 exemplares
Iron Sunrise (2004) 1,967 exemplares
The Family Trade (2004) 1,761 exemplares
Saturn's Children (2008) 1,602 exemplares
The Fuller Memorandum (2010) 1,487 exemplares
The Hidden Family (2005) 1,245 exemplares
Rule 34 (2011) 1,243 exemplares
The Apocalypse Codex (2012) 1,057 exemplares
The Clan Corporate (2006) 1,038 exemplares
Wireless (2009) 875 exemplares
The Rhesus Chart (2014) 824 exemplares
The Merchants' War (2007) 793 exemplares
Neptune's Brood (2013) 764 exemplares
The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) 739 exemplares
The Annihilation Score (2015) 702 exemplares
The Nightmare Stacks (2016) 596 exemplares
The Revolution Business (2009) 585 exemplares
Toast and Other Rusted Futures (2002) — Autor — 526 exemplares
The Delirium Brief (2017) 499 exemplares
The Trade of Queens (2010) 478 exemplares
Overtime (2009) 441 exemplares
Equoid {novella} (2013) 439 exemplares
The Labyrinth Index (2018) 402 exemplares
Empire Games (2017) 392 exemplares
Dead Lies Dreaming (2020) 275 exemplares
Dark State (2018) 242 exemplares
On Her Majesty's Occult Service (2007) 224 exemplares
Missile Gap (2005) 188 exemplares
Quantum of Nightmares (2022) 178 exemplares
The Traders' War (2013) 171 exemplares
The Revolution Trade (2013) 170 exemplares
Escape From Yokai Land (2022) 151 exemplares
Scratch Monkey (1993) 135 exemplares
Palimpsest (2009) 119 exemplares
Invisible Sun (2021) 111 exemplares
The Concrete Jungle (2004) 103 exemplares
Season of Skulls (2023) 91 exemplares
A Colder War {short story} (2000) 63 exemplares
A Tall Tail (2012) 56 exemplares
Lobsters {novelette} (2001) 39 exemplares
Bit Rot {short story} (2011) 22 exemplares
Pimpf (2006) 16 exemplares
Rogue Farm (2003) 15 exemplares
Antibodies (2005) 14 exemplares
Appeals Court (2015) 12 exemplares
Snowball's Chance (2005) 11 exemplares
Elector [novella] (2004) 10 exemplares
MAXO Signals (2005) 10 exemplares
Trunk and Disorderly (2007) 9 exemplares
Halo {novelette} (2002) 9 exemplares
Jury Service (2015) 8 exemplares
The Web Architect's Handbook (1996) 7 exemplares
Unwirer (2004) 7 exemplares
A Boy and His God 5 exemplares
Bear Trap 5 exemplares
Nightfall [novelette] (2003) 5 exemplares
Tourist (2002) 4 exemplares
The Boys 4 exemplares
Ship of Fools 4 exemplares
Yellow Snow (1990) 4 exemplares
Flowers from Alice 3 exemplares
Curator {short story} (2003) 3 exemplares
Generation Gap 3 exemplares
Survivor {short story} (2004) 3 exemplares
Troubadour {short story} (2001) 3 exemplares
Router {short story} (2002) 3 exemplares
The Midlist Bombers 2 exemplares
The Jennifer Morgue - Part 1 (2018) 2 exemplares
Remade 2 exemplares
Tolkowsky's Cut (1993) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Ancient of Days 2 exemplares
SEAQ and Destroy 2 exemplares
Examination Night 2 exemplares
Tarkovsky's Cut 2 exemplares
The Atrocity Archive (2007) 2 exemplares
Something Sweet 2 exemplares
Big Brother Iron 2 exemplares
Red, Hot and Dark 2 exemplares
Ghost Engine (2021) 1 exemplar
Festival of Fools (2004) 1 exemplar
Different Flesh 1 exemplar
Escape 1 exemplar
Love Me 1 exemplar
A conventional boy 1 exemplar
Warcrime 1 exemplar
Year Zero 1 exemplar
Black Sky 1 exemplar
Hladnije od pakla 1 exemplar
Lambing Season 1 exemplar
Japan 2007 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Contribuidor — 537 exemplares
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: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) — Contribuidor — 483 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 471 exemplares
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007) — Contribuidor — 380 exemplares
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 359 exemplares
Engineering Infinity (2011) — Contribuidor — 347 exemplares
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (2011) — Contribuidor — 326 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006) — Contribuidor — 306 exemplares
The Book of Cthulhu (2011) — Contribuidor — 292 exemplares
The Space Opera Renaissance (2007) — Contribuidor — 280 exemplares
Sympathy for the Devil (2010) — Contribuidor — 275 exemplares
Year's Best SF 8 (2003) — Contribuidor — 253 exemplares
Year's Best SF 9 (2004) — Contribuidor — 252 exemplares
The Scholars of Night (1988) — Introdução, algumas edições193 exemplares
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (2013) — Contribuidor — 179 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two (2008) — Contribuidor — 164 exemplares
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition (2013) — Contribuidor — 150 exemplares
Revisions (2004) — Contribuidor — 145 exemplares
Live Without a Net (2003) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
One Million A.D. (2005) — Contribuidor — 134 exemplares
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010) — Contribuidor — 128 exemplares
Alien Contact (2011) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 (2004) — Contribuidor — 118 exemplares
Futures from Nature (2007) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2013 Edition (2013) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (2008) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 (2005) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Deathwing [2001 anthology] (2001) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (2002) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Beyond Singularity (2005) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird (2015) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Nebula Awards Showcase 2004 (2004) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology (2006) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 (2003) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
New Voices In Science Fiction (2003) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
Villains!: Book 1 (1992) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Year's Best Fantasy 7 (2007) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Knaves Over Queens (2018) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology (2007) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Zombies: More Recent Dead (2014) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
The Laundry (2010) — Introdução — 53 exemplares
New Worlds 1 (1991) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Ignorant Armies (1989) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
The Weerde Book 1: A Shared World Anthology (1992) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (2010) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
A.I.s (2004) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Fables from the Fountain (2011) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Deathwing [1990 anthology] (1990) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
New Worlds 3 (1993) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (2013) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Weerde Book 2: The Book of the Ancients (1993) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond (2015) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Best Short Novels 2005 (2005) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 27, No. 12 [December 2003] (2003) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 (2013) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Cthulhu and the Coeds: Or Kids and Squids (2000) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Infinity plus two (2002) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Täheaeg 7: Ingel ja kvantkristall [ulmeantoloogia] (2010) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Focus 67 (2017) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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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

An unusual foray into Sci-fi for me. I enjoyed this, and certainly found it readable enough. I was a little let-down by the scope of its ambition. The topics it's based around are huge - in particular the concept of cornucopia machines and time-travel via faster-than-light. Unfortunately, though, these aren't really explored to their full extent (although, to be fair, I guess time travel is a pretty well-worn trope by now).

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.
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thisisstephenbetts | 64 outras críticas | Nov 25, 2023 |
Charles Stross is starting to wear thin on me.
 
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hubrisinmotion | 73 outras críticas | Nov 14, 2023 |
I am always all over the place with Stross. He is a gifted writer and can really put a story together but sometimes his books just don't knock me out.

This book was good but I admit that I was expecting more and it wasn't nearly as clever as I think it was suppose to be. I will continue to read Stross but I have a feeling he is going to always be one of those writers that just completely wows me or is just all right.
 
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cdaley | 73 outras críticas | Nov 2, 2023 |
In theory, I should really love this series, but for the 2nd book in a row, the story just kind of dragged on for me. I loved the first half of the book and then couldn't wait for it to be over. This was the same experience as the first book. I might give it one more go but this might also be the end for me.
 
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cdaley | 64 outras críticas | Nov 2, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
115
Also by
69
Membros
40,377
Popularidade
#437
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
1,439
ISBN
452
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
221

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