My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.
We are, after all, homo economicus. - Charles Stross
We are, after all, homo economicus.
- Charles Stross
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was des… - Charles Stross
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was des…
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. - Charles Stross
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market. - Charles Stross
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? - Charles Stross
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion er… - Charles Stross
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion er…
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we calle… - Charles Stross
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we calle…
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… - Charles Stross
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…
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cl… - Charles Stross
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cl…
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