Charles Stross Quotes - Page 4

• When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Space

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• What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

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  Jobs, Reading, Writing

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• I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

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  Half, Linux, Firsts

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• I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

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  Character, Track, Progress

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• Lo que realmente creo es que nuestro modelo actual de derechos de autor está fundamentalmente roto. Necesitamos urgentemente sustituirlo por un sistema diferente de remuneración de los creadores, que se lo quite de la cara al público (que, para empezar, nunca fue consciente de ello en la era del árbol muerto anterior a Internet). Desgraciadamente, el actual modelo de derechos de autor está consagrado en la legislación de los tratados comerciales internacionales, lo que hace casi imposible evitarlo.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Law, Broken

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• Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

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  Book, Views, Fans

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• Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

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  Book, Thinking, Pirate

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• The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

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  Thinking, Problem, Scales

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• I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

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  Couple, May, Terrible

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• Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

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  Mean, Use, Way

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• I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

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  Drama, Tv Shows, Watches

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• Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

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  Years, Needs, Answers

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• I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.

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  Hands, Library, Grew Up

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• The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

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  Crazy, Dots, Steam

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• I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

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  Amazon, Hats, Customers

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• I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

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  War, Writing, Spy

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• I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

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  Organization, Want, Individual

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• For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.

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  Writing, Tired, Skills

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• I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

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  Age, Pay, Time Is Money

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• The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

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  Dirty, Book, Average

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• Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

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  Writing, Ideas, Stories

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• My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

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  New York, Track, Agents

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• I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

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  Loss, Six Months, Internet

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• Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

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  Book, Writing, Technology

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• An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

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  Careers, Average, Long

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