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.
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
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)
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. Quantum of Nightmares (2022)
12. Escape from Yokai Land (2022)
Three Tales from the Laundry Files (2014)
Season of Skulls (2023)
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. Quantum of Nightmares (2022)
12. Escape from Yokai Land (2022)
Three Tales from the Laundry Files (2014)
Season of Skulls (2023)
Novels
Glasshouse (2006)
Missile Gap (2006)
Scratch Monkey (2011)
The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Cory Doctorow)
Missile Gap (2006)
Scratch Monkey (2011)
The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) (with Cory Doctorow)
Collections
Chapbooks
Novellas
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)
Some of the Best From Tor.com: 2013 Edition (2013)
Non fiction
Awards
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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."

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."

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!"

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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