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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.

Stross is sometimes regarded as being part of a new generation of British science fiction writers who specialise in hard science fiction and space opera. His contemporaries include Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Liz Williams and Richard Morgan.

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	The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 27,926 ratings — published 2004 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accelerando 3.87 avg rating — 22,797 ratings — published 2005 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 16,312 ratings — published 2003 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 15,214 ratings — published 2006 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fuller Memorandum (Laundry Files, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 12,833 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apocalypse Codex (Laundry Files, #4) 4.18 avg rating — 11,554 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halting State (Halting State, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 12,571 ratings — published 2007 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glasshouse 3.88 avg rating — 11,822 ratings — published 2006 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 9,606 ratings — published 2014 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron Sunrise (Eschaton, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 9,489 ratings — published 2004 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Crib sheet: The Regicide Report

The Regicide Report came out in January 2026. Traditionally I wait for the paperback before writing one of these spoiler-laden crib sheets, but there won't be a US paperback edition and the UK one isn't until the end of the year: if you don't want to wait, you don't have to.

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The Laundry Files main story arc runs through nine novels, not including A Conventional Boy, a number of novel

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Charles Stross made a comment on More in Sadness than in Anger " Tom wrote: "I guess our fault is that we lack the imagination to truly fathom the depths of corruption and depravity some people have as a way of life ...more "
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Charles Stross answered idiffer's question: What is the status of Ghost Engine? Latest mention I could find was early 2023, where you were going through the second draft... Thanks in advance. It's in the works! The next book due out is "The Regicide Report", in early 2026. "Ghost Engine" is about 80% finished … but I got stale, so I've been taking time out since early April to work on a new project that bit me and wouldn't let go, set in See Full Answer
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Charles Stross made a comment on Nirkatze’s review of A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4) " I didn't choose the additional stories to round out the book: that was an editorial decision. (My preferred choice would have been "Equoid".) Never mi ...more "
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Charles Stross made a comment on What SF/F genre tropes should I tackle next? " Steve wrote: "It's 100% fantasy, but I've stumbled into the sub-genre of "cultivation" and find that it's really good fun. Seems to often go hand in h ...more "
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Charles Stross made a comment on They don't make readers like they used to " Yuri wrote: "7. BTW. Are there the requests to use the Laundry Files for movies, animation, comics, fan memorabilia?" Yup. There's a second edition of t ...more "
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“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

tags: humor

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“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 error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”
― Charles Stross, Overtime

tags: geek, humour

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“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

tags: bogons, computers, hacker-folklore, humour, idiots, it

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