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'Charles David George "Charlie" Stross' (born Leeds, October 18, 1964) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.
Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod and Liz Williams. Obvious inspirations include Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, among other cyberpunk and postcyberpunk writers.
His first published short story, "The Boys", appeared in ''Interzone'' in 1987: his first novel, ''Singularity Sky'' was published by Ace Books in 2003 and was nominated for the Hugo Award. A collection of his short stories, '' appeared in 2002. Subsequent short stories have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and other awards. His novella "The Concrete Jungle" (available online) won the Hugo award for its category in 2005. His novel ''Accelerando'' (also available online) won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the year's best science fiction novel, and was on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. ''Glasshouse'' won the 2007 Prometheus Award and is on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. Most recently, his novella Missile Gap (likewise available online) won the 2007 Locus Award for best novella.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Stross published some role-playing game articles for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the ''White Dwarf'' magazine. Some of his creatures, such as the death knight, githyanki (borrowed from George R. R. Martin's book, ''Dying of the Light''), githzerai, and slaad (a chaotic race notable for their rigid caste system) were later published in the ''Fiend Folio'' monster compendium.
In addition to working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical author, freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist at different times. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science.
''Rogue Farm'', an animated film based on his 2003 short story of the same title, debuted in August 2004.
He is one of the Guests of Honour at Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in March 2008.

Contents

Books

Non-Fiction

Stand Alone Works

Eschaton series

The "Bob Howard - Laundry" series

External links

Fiction

Essays

Interviews

Misc

Books

Non-Fiction

★ ''The Web Architect's Handbook'', published 1996, ISBN 0-201-87735-X

Stand Alone Works

★ ''Scratch Monkey'', unpublished, 1993

★ '', published 2002, ISBN 1-58715-413-7 (short story collection)

★ ''Accelerando'', published 2005, ISBN 0-441-01284-1

★ ''Glasshouse'', published 2006, ISBN 0-441-01403-8 (set in the same universe as Accelerando; 2007 Hugo Award finalist for Best Novel)

★ ''Missile Gap'', published 2007, ISBN 1-59606-058-1 (novella)

★ ''Halting State'', forthcoming 2007, ISBN 978-0-441-01498

★ Saturn's Children (provisional title), forthcoming 2008

Eschaton series

This series is "a post-singularity space opera."

★ ''Singularity Sky'', published 2003, ISBN 0-441-01072-5

★ ''Iron Sunrise'', published 2004, ISBN 1-84149-335-X

The "Bob Howard - Laundry" series

This series is "cross-genre... combining aspects of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and the classic British spy thriller."

★ ''The Atrocity Archives'', published 2004, ISBN 1-930846-25-8 (contains the Hugo Award-winning novella "The Concrete Jungle")

★ ''The Jennifer Morgue'', published 2006, ISBN 1-930846-44-4 (also contains the extra story "Pimpf")
=== Merchant Princes series ===
This series is fantasy, with jumpers between alternate, modern & pre-industrial, Earths. The first three books were collectively nominated for and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2007.

★ ''The Family Trade'', published 2004, ISBN 0-7653-0929-7

★ ''The Hidden Family'', published 2005, ISBN 0-7653-1347-2

★ ''The Clan Corporate'', published 2006, ISBN 0-7653-0930-0

★ ''The Merchants' War'', forthcoming 2007

★ (title to be announced), forthcoming 2008

External links

Fiction

★ ''Accelerando'' The complete text of Stross' novel, released as a free ebook under a Creative Commons license.

★ "A Colder War" is available online at ''Infinity Plus''

★ Charles Stross's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online

Essays

★ Life's a Game and Then you Die, regarding the future of online games.

★ "The High Frontier, Redux", an article on the harsh realities of the future of space travel and colonization of the solar system and beyond.

Interviews

★ Interview conducted by Lou Anders at ''Infinity Plus''

★ Interview conducted by Nick Gevers at ''Science Fiction Weekly'' (2003)

★ Interview extract from an interview in ''Locus'' (2003)

★ Interview conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com

★ Interview conducted by Martin Empson for ''Socialist Review'', full text here. (2005)

★ Mini Inverview conducted by John Joseph Adams for SCI FI WIRE (2006)

★ Interview moderated by Cory Doctorow at The Well (2003)

★ Interview conducted by Roger Deforest at HardSF.net (2006)

Misc

★ Official Homepage and blog

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★ ''The Family Trade'' has been coded by StoryCode

★ Golden Gryphon Press official site - About ''The Atrocity Archives''

★ Golden Gryphon Press official site - About ''The Jennifer Morgue''

★ A FAQ, mainly listing his published novels. The descriptions for the series came from this.