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Accelerando will make your brain hurt — but in a good sort of way.
Actually a unified collection of nine previously published novelettes, Charles Stross may very well have written a seminal work in science fiction. Seminal not only in exploring where humanity may be going in the next several decades but in making a […]
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The winners were announced today. I have not read the work, which friends have described as a novel for adults about magic. All of this year’s nominees were British authors.
Charles Stross won the award for Best Novella for “The Concrete Jungle” […]
As the ones of you who read this blog know, Charles Stross is science fiction’s most recent sensation. After years of relative anonymity, he’s been shortlisted this year for SF awards for his novels (both SF and fantasy) and novellas. Iron Sunrise, which garnered the best novel nomination for this year’s Hugo Awards, is a […]
As promised, Charles Stross has made his new book, Accelerando available in electronic format for free. It’s available via this website. He announced the e-book’s availability this morning in a post to a usenet newsgroup. After that, he had 4,000 downloads in the first four hours.
The newsgroup, devoted to discussion of written science fiction, […]
A tip of the hat to Lou Anders, the editorial director of Prometheus Books’ science fiction imprint Pyr. Commenting on the “mundane” and “anti-mundane” debate in SF, his blog pulls out a quote from SF grand master and Hall of Fame member Frederik Pohl. It is worth repeating verbatim:
Does the story tell me something […]
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