Frasi di Charles Stross

Charles David George Stross è un autore di fantascienza britannico.

Fa parte di una nuova generazione di scrittori di fantascienza britannici specializzati nei sottogeneri della fantascienza hard e della space opera. Suoi contemporanei sono Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod e Liz Williams. Il suo primo racconto pubblicato, The Boys, apparve in Interzone nel 1987. Il suo primo romanzo, Singularity Sky, fu pubblicato da Ace nel 2003 e fu candidato al Premio Hugo. Una raccolta di suoi racconti, Toast: And Other Rusted Futures apparve nel 2002. Successivamente altri suoi racconti furono candidati al Premio Hugo, il Premio Nebula e altri premi letterari di fantascienza.

Negli anni settanta e ottanta, Stross pubblicò alcuni articoli sui giochi di ruolo per Dungeons & Dragons nella rivista White Dwarf. Alcune sue creazioni come i githyanki , i githzerai, e gli slaadi furono inseriti in seguito nelle espansioni ufficiali del gioco.

Oltre al lavoro di scrittore Charles Stross è stato anche autore tecnico, giornalista freelance, programmatore e farmacista. Ha ottenuto una laurea in farmacia e informatica.

Un film d'animazione in grafica computerizzata basato sul suo racconto Rogue Farm è uscito nell'agosto 2004. Wikipedia  

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“You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.”

Charles Stross The Laundry Files

Classified Appendix (p. 354)
The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012)

“The first rule of space travel…is that mistakes are fatal. Space isn’t friendly; it kills you. And there are no second chances.”

Charles Stross libro Singularity Sky

Origine: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 4, “The Admiral’s Man” (p. 72; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)

“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”

Charles Stross The Atrocity Archives

Origine: The Atrocity Archives

“Unfortunately it’s also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen—it’s invisible and you don’t notice its presence until it’s gone, and then you’re sorry.”

Charles Stross libro The Fuller Memorandum

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 2, “Pointing the Finger” (p. 32)

“If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.”

Charles Stross libro Glasshouse

Origine: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 13, “Climb” (p. 224)

“Truly the jaws of irony are agape!”

Charles Stross libro Rule 34

Origine: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 13, “Kemal: Spamcop” (p. 157)

“And that’s when it turned intae the full-dress faeco-ventilatory intersection scene.”

Charles Stross libro Iron Sunrise

Origine: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 2, “Out of the Frying Pan” (p. 45)

““You have an evil mind!”
“And this is a bad thing how, exactly?””

Charles Stross libro Halting State

Origine: Halting State (2007), Chapter 28, “Jack: Sex Offender” (p. 235)

“Well, moving swiftly sideways into cognitive neuroscience…In the past twenty years we’ve made huge strides, using imaging tools, direct brain interfaces, and software simulations. We’ve pretty much disproved the existence of free will, at least as philosophers thought they understood it. A lot of our decision-making mechanics are subconscious; we only become aware of our choices once we’ve begun to act on them. And a whole lot of other things that were once thought to correlate with free will turn out also to be mechanical. If we use transcranial magnetic stimulation to disrupt the right temporoparietal junction, we can suppress subjects’ ability to make moral judgements; we can induce mystical religious experiences: We can suppress voluntary movements, and the patients will report that they didn’t move because they didn’t want to move. The TMPJ finding is deeply significant in the philosophy of law, by the way: It strongly supports the theory that we are not actually free moral agents who make decisions—such as whether or not to break the law—of our own free will.
“In a nutshell, then, what I’m getting at is that the project of law, ever since the Code of Hammurabi—the entire idea that we can maintain social order by obtaining voluntary adherence to a code of permissible behaviour, under threat of retribution—is fundamentally misguided.” His eyes are alight; you can see him in the Cartesian lecture-theatre of your mind, pacing door-to-door as he addresses his audience. “If people don’t have free will or criminal intent in any meaningful sense, then how can they be held responsible for their actions? And if the requirements of managing a complex society mean the number of laws have exploded until nobody can keep track of them without an expert system, how can people be expected to comply with them?”

Charles Stross libro Rule 34

Origine: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 26, “Liz: It’s Complicated” (pp. 286-287)

“Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.”

Charles Stross libro Singularity Sky

Origine: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 9, “Diplomatic Behavior” (p. 198)

“You got overdraft at the mythology bank.”

Charles Stross libro Singularity Sky

Origine: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 15, “Delivery Service” (p. 329)

“No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.”

Charles Stross libro Rule 34

Origine: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 1, “Liz: Red Pill, Blue Pill” (p. 16)

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