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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross je spisovateľ žijúci v Edinburghu v Škótsku. Jeho práce siahajú od science fiction cez horor k fantasy.

Stross býva niekedy považovaný za príslušníka novej generácie britských sci-fi autorov, ktorí sa špecializujú na tzv. „hard“ teda technologickú science-fiction a space opery. Medzi jeho súčasníkov patria Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod a Liz Williamsová. Okrem iných kyberpunkových a postkyberpunkových autorov jeho zdrojmi inšpirácie sú Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, a Bruce Sterling. 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 kniha Singularity Sky

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Fuller Memorandum

Zdroj: 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 kniha Glasshouse

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

“Truly the jaws of irony are agape!”

Charles Stross kniha Rule 34

Zdroj: 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 kniha Iron Sunrise

Zdroj: 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 kniha Halting State

Zdroj: 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 kniha Rule 34

Zdroj: 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 kniha Singularity Sky

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

“You got overdraft at the mythology bank.”

Charles Stross kniha Singularity Sky

Zdroj: 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 kniha Rule 34

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