Charles Stross

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Charles Stross is a British science fiction author whose novels and short fiction explore the far-future implications of technology, economics, and computation with dazzling inventiveness and dark humour. He is one of the most intellectually ambitious and technically literate science fiction writers working today. Born in Leeds in 1964,... Stross studied pharmacy and computer science, and worked as a pharmacist, a technical author, and a software developer before becoming a full-time writer. His deep knowledge of computing, cryptography, and economics infuses his fiction with a technical credibility that is rare even in hard science fiction. Accelerando (2005) is a landmark novel — a chronicle of three generations of a family living through and beyond the technological singularity, exploring post-humanism, uploaded consciousness, and the radical transformation of civilisation by exponentially advancing technology. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award and is widely regarded as one of the defining works of singularity fiction. The Laundry Files series — beginning with The Atrocity Archives — combines Lovecraftian horror with spy fiction and IT workplace comedy, following a British civil servant who discovers that computational mathematics can summon eldritch horrors. The Merchant Princes series blends parallel universes with economic and political thriller. Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood are robot space opera. Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise explore posthuman civilisation. Stross has won the Hugo Award multiple times and has been nominated for virtually every major science fiction award. The audiobook editions of Stross's novels are engaging and intellectually stimulating. His books and audiobooks are essential for science fiction readers who love big ideas, dark humour, and stories that take the implications of technology seriously. Read more Show less