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Charles Stross


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Charles Stross is a full-time writer who was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He studied in London and Bradford, gaining degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs, including pharmacist, technical author, software engineer, and freelance journalist.
Charles is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of six Hugo-nominated novels and winner of the 2005, 2010, and 2015 Hugo awards for best novella, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Singularity Sky
   1. Singularity Sky (2003)
   2. Iron Sunrise (2004)
   3. Accelerando (2005)
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Merchant Princes
   1. The Family Trade (2004)
   2. The Hidden Family (2005)
   3. The Clan Corporate (2006)
   4. The Merchants' War (2007)
   5. The Revolution Business (2009)
   6. The Trade of Queens (2010)
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Laundry Files
   1. The Atrocity Archives (2004)
   2. The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
   2.5. Overtime (2010)
   2.6. Down on the Farm (2010)
   2.7. Equoid (2013)
   3. The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
   4. The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
   5. The Rhesus Chart (2014)
   Three Tales from the Laundry Files (2014)
   6. The Annihilation Score (2015)
   7. The Nightmare Stacks (2016)
   7.5. Escape from Yokai Land (2022)
   8. The Delirium Brief (2017)
   9. The Labyrinth Index (2018)
   10. Dead Lies Dreaming (2020)
   11. Quantum of Nightmares (2021)
   12. Season of Skulls (2023)
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Halting State
   1. Halting State (2007)
   2. Rule 34 (2011)
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Freyaverse
   1. Saturn's Children (2008)
   2. Neptune's Brood (2013)
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Empire Games
   1. Empire Games (2017)
   2. Dark State (2018)
   3. Invisible Sun (2020)
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Novels
   Glasshouse (2006)
   Missile Gap (2006)
   Scratch Monkey (2011)
   The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Cory Doctorow)
   A Conventional Boy (2025)
   The Regicide Report (2025)
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Collections
   Toast (2002)
   Wireless (2009)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Approaching Xanadu (1989)
   Palimpsest (2011)
   A Tall Tail (2012)
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Charles Stross recommends
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Spring's Arcana (2023)
(Dead God's Heart, book 1)
Lilith Saintcrow
"An ice-cold contemporary reboot of Baba Yaga--some killer grannies are more lethal than others: pray she isn't yours!"
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Battle of the Linguist Mages (2022)
Scotto Moore
"It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn't a virus from outer space, it's a goddamn alien invasion."
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Robot Artists and Black Swans (2021)
Bruce Sterling
"Bruce Sterling’s Italian short fiction is like an Asti Spumante from the vineyard where futurism was first fermented."

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Anthologies containing stories by Charles Stross
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99 Fleeting Fantasies (2024)
A Fantasy Anthology
edited by
Jennifer Brozek
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 (2023)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 1)
edited by
Jared Shurin
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2004) : Singularity Sky
British Science Fiction Association Best Novel nominee (2005) : Accelerando
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2005) : Iron Sunrise
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2006) : Accelerando
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2006) : Accelerando
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2006) : Accelerando
Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Hidden Family
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2007) : Glasshouse
Prometheus Award Best Novel winner (2007) : Glasshouse
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2008) : Halting State
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2009) : Saturn's Children
Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2009) : Saturn's Children
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2012) : Rule 34
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2013) : The Rapture of the Nerds
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2014) : Neptune's Brood
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2014) : Neptune's Brood


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