"... a babe with a claymore running along the Royal Mile, pursued by remotely piloted drones, invisible to everyone except children and drunkards too poor to be using augmented reality." - deleted scene from Charles Stross' Halting State, dated June 25 2006

Found this in my records. Shame it never got used. Very cool action scene idea; ( Read more... )

The Time is 7PM, the Place is Pandemonium Books in Cambridge Massachusetts. You are a science fiction writer on a promo tour. Your entire visual field is filled with geeks, the Gene Wolfe section of the bookshelves and nerds. One of them is grinning at your t-shirt which, by the way, reads: i make stuff upYour name is Charlie Stross and your laptop ( Read more... )

Charles Stross is coming to my town (well, Cambridge, which is close enough) today for a signing. Looks like I'll actually have to *buy* a copy of Accelerando now. No, better yet, Toast :) if I want to pretend to be a True FanTM.

September 25 2006 - Borrowed Godplayers and K-Machines by Damien Broderick, Bagombo Snuff Box and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and the third Charles Stross "Merchant Princes" book.

( Spoilers for at least two of the above ensue hence, with Xtreme!Predjudice ... )

At first we live off the capital freed up by the Cats' liquidation; later we supplement it by setting up a variety of business fronts. (If you've ever heard of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, or Cordwainer Heavy Industries, that's us.)" - from Glasshouse by Charlie Stross

And this one, just because I liked it:
"Now lets go upstairs. We ( Read more... )

... Monica Furious continues to not be updated. Way to go, Jer. Sweet, high-res art is no goddamn substitute for being on-time, every time.

A review of Scratch Monkey by Charles Stross will be going up here sometime in the next 6 hours ( Read more... )