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I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.

From Charles Stross

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

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I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

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The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

From Charles Stross

If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.

From Charles Stross

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.

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I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.

From Charles Stross

Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect.

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