Frasi di Charles Stross

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Origine: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 2, “Going Down to Dunwich” (pp. 42-43)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 19)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 18)

The Concrete Jungle (p. 305)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)

The Concrete Jungle (p. 275)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004), Chapter 7, “Bad Moon Rising” (p. 163)

Ken MacLeod in Introduction: Charlie’s Demons (p. xvi)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)

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

A dry chuckle: “I used to try to believe a different one before breakfast every day, you know, just in case Pascal’s wager was right—exploring the phase-space of all possible resurrections, you know? But I think at this point we can agree that Dawkins was right. Human consciousness is vulnerable to certain types of transmissible memetic virus, and religions that promise life beyond death are a particularly pernicious example because they exploit our natural aversion to halting states.”
Origine: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 9 (“Survivor”), pp. 396-397

If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?
Origine: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147

Origine: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), p. 130

“Very long-term—at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.”
Origine: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), pp. 14-15

Sister Seventh twisted her head around to look out the windows at the foggy evening drizzle beyond. “Perplexity maximizes. Not understand singularity is discontinuity with all tradition? Revolution is necessary; deconstruct the old, ring in the new. Before, I questioned your sapience. Now, your sanity questionable; sapience not. Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationality!”
Origine: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 144)

Origine: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 143)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 7, “Officer Friendly” (p. 113)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 301)

Origine: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 17, “Interview with the Domina” (p. 304)

Origine: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 16, “Long-Lost Sibs” (p. 268)

Origine: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 15, “”Revising My Opinions” (pp. 253-254)
Contesto: She’s silent for only a moment. “Ask not what it’s gotten you, kid. Ask what it’s saved you from.”

Origine: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 9, “Coin-Operated Boy” (p. 157)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Epilogue, “Debrief” (p. 360)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 347)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 321)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 296)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 244)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 236)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 6, “Leviathan’s Representative” (p. 193)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 40)

Origine: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 37)