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Charles Stross

(b.1964)

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

Series

Singularity Sky
   1. Singularity Sky (2003)
   2. Iron Sunrise (2004)
   3. Accelerando (2005)

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)

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)
   6. The Annihilation Score (2015)
   7. The Nightmare Stacks (2016)
   8. The Delirium Brief (2017)
   9. The Labyrinth Index (2018)
   10. Dead Lies Dreaming (2020)
   11. Escape from Puroland (2021)
   Three Tales from the Laundry Files (2014)

Halting State
1. Halting State (2007)
2. Rule 34 (2011)

Freyaverse
1. Saturn's Children (2008)
2. Neptune's Brood (2013)

Empire Games
   1. Empire Games (2017)
   2. Dark State (2018)
   3. Invisible Sun (2020)

Shining Worlds
1. Ghost Engine (2020)

Laundry Files: New Management
1. Dead Lies Dreaming (2020)
2. In His House (2022)

Novels

   Glasshouse (2006)
   Missile Gap (2006)
   Scratch Monkey (2011)
   The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Cory Doctorow)

Collections

Toast (2002)
Wireless (2009)

Chapbooks

Approaching Xanadu (1989)

Novellas

Palimpsest (2011)
A Tall Tail (2012)

Series contributed to

Some of the Best from Tor.com (with Dale Bailey, Leigh Bardugo, Beth Bernobich, Jedediah Berry, Ben Burgis, John Chu, Tina Connolly, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, Genevieve Valentine and Carrie Vaughn)
Some of the Best From Tor.com, 2013 Edition (2013)

Non fiction

The Web Architect's Handbook (1996)

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

Charles Stross recommends

The Zenith Angle (2004)
Bruce Sterling
"A Catch-22 for the slashdot generation: a wry, cynical, informed peek at the paranoid world of the post-9/11 cyberspookerati. Buy it, read it, be very afraid."

Lady of Mazes (2005)
Karl Schroeder
"The most thought provoking and interesting work of hard SF that I've read in the past year."

Moxyland (2008)
Lauren Beukes
"Full of spiky originality, a new kind of SF munching its way out of the intestines of the wasp-paralysed caterpillar of cyberpunk."

The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (2010)
Walter Jon Williams
"Walter Jon Williams really knows how to play power chords in the key of 'sense of wonder'!"

The Quantum Thief (2010)
(Jean le Flambeur, book 1)
Hannu Rajaniemi
"The best first SF novel I've read in years. Hard to admit, but I think he's better at this stuff than I am."

Parasite (2013)
(Parasitology, book 1)
Mira Grant
"A creepy spine-tingler of a medical thriller."

The Invisible Library (2014)
(Invisible Library, book 1)
Genevieve Cogman
"A dazzling bibliophilic debut."

The Library At Mount Char (2015)
Scott Hawkins
"A pyrotechnic debut...The most terrifyingly psychopathic depiction of a family of gods and their abusive fathersince Genesis."

Pyramid of Blood (2015)
(Swords Versus Tanks, book 3)
M Harold Page
"Holy ****."

An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors (2017)
(Risen Kingdoms, book 1)
Curtis Craddock
"A grand tale of intrigue, adventure and gaslight fantasy in the tradition of Alexander Dumas."

Creatures of Will & Temper (2017)
(Creatures , book 1)
Molly Tanzer
"Decadent Victorians clash with dueling demon-hunters in this page-turning reinvention of Oscar Wilde's classic tale. I loved it!"

Stars Uncharted (2018)
(Stars Uncharted, book 1)
S K Dunstall
"An absorbing space opera, in the tradition of The Expanse and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet."

Gideon the Ninth (2019)
(Locked Tomb, book 1)
Tamsyn Muir
"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!"

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