Tag Archives: Charles-Stross
links for 2009-12-15: generation ships
Charlie's Diary: Designing society for posterity Charles Stross polls his readership: "So. You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid. What sort of governance and society do you think … more…
links for 2007-11-06: Charlie in Japan
Charlie’s Diary: Japan: some impressions “Puroland is like Disney World, if you compressed it to bonsai proportions, installed it inside a huge squash court and pickled it in saccharine….” (tags: future Japan Hello-Kitty)
The BOLD PRINT giveth…
Charlie Stross, mostly offline in Sydney, Australia: The hotel booking info that promised broadband internet access actually meant “we’ll rent you a PCMCIA card with Windows XP drivers that lets you talk to a cellphone network, at vast expense” — … more…
Jury Service
a collaborative fiction by Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross, is being serialised in weekly installments through this month at scifi.com. The first part is up today… (via Boing Boing, of course)
Not The End of The World
Well, I’m back, and while I was gone, I actually finished a book. (This doesn’t happen very often lately; I used to do most of my book reading on public transport on the way to and from work, which as … more…
Pravda: Generals were drunk as cobblers
Generals were drunk as cobblers at the Lvov aerodrome – forthright revelations of gallantry-deficit in miltary and clerical brass at the Lvov airfield: “Other witnesses say, the priests were jumping over dead bodies with their frocks up; all commanders began … more…
Pray pray pray
Found this on Pagan Prattle, after reading Charlie’s account of his marriage proposal, and consequent state of betrothal to Feorag of Pagan Prattle, for which enthusiasm rejoices and offers his congratulations. Feorag’s only posted remark on the subject to date … more…
The brutal assassination of internet radio
A few days ago Charlie Stross spoke righteously with respect to the brutal assassination of internet radio: I’m a 37 year old with a disposable income and a CD collection containing over 500 disks. I should, by rights, be the … more…