Charles Stross
Also known as Charlie Stross
British science fiction and fantasy writer; Accelerando and the Laundry Files.
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- Charles Stross is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy, born in Leeds in 1964.
- He trained as a pharmacist, then worked as a programmer and technical writer before writing fiction full-time.
- His first novel, Singularity Sky, came out in 2003.
- He has won the Hugo Award for Best Novella three times.
- He wrote The Rapture of the Nerds with Cory Doctorow.
Key facts
- Born
- 18 October 1964, Leeds, England1
- Education
- Pharmacy degree (1986); postgraduate computer science, University of Bradford1
- First novel
- Singularity Sky (Ace Books, 2003)1
- Series
- The Laundry Files, starting with The Atrocity Archives (2004)1
- Hugo Awards
- Best Novella for The Concrete Jungle (2005), Palimpsest (2010) and Equoid (2014)1
- Other awards
- Locus Award for Accelerando (2006) and Missile Gap (2007); Prometheus Award for Glasshouse1
- Column
- Linux column in Computer Shopper, 1994 to 20041
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