Charles Stross
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"Charles David George" ""Charlie"" "Stross" is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.

Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams, Neal Asher and Richard K. Morgan/Richard Morgan.

Between 1994 and 2004, he was also an active writer for the magazine Computer Shopper (UK magazine)/Computer Shopper and was responsible for the monthly Linux column. Due to time constraints, he eventually had to stop writing for Computer Shopper so that he could devote more time to his novels. Subsequently, he published all his articles on the Internet.

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I was walking around for a week or so trying to remember not to talk about it. And, you know, keeping good news to yourself isn't always easy.

You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.

The social context of the UK is more open to the future, the old pessimism has been scrubbed and there's a view that you can engage with the future again. There is quite a lot of optimism in British science fiction, much less of the sackcloth and ashes and 'we're all going to die' attitude that it used to have, whereas the Americans have become more entrenched and fearful since 2001.