Uncle Charlie explains the potential future of lifelogging to Joe Average BBC reader.

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Centauri Dreams replies to the recent Charlie Stross essay on space colonisation, and raises some good points. Lively discussion thread also.

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Transcript of a keynote speech given by Charlie Stross to a tech consultancy open day. Exponential change, technological impacts, all the good stuff.

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"Gordeyev invented a gasoline-powered boot that looks like pogo sticks that strap to your shins, and they work on the same principle as the air-cushioned basketball shoe."

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"Escapist fiction gives us a vehicle for vicariously experiencing stuff that's actually quite painful, unpleasant, and undesirable -- and romance and adventure at the same time (which are also ab

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Not one, not two, but THREE negative reviews of Stross's 'Accelerando'; guess the World Transhumanist Association award votes weren't unanimous, then

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"Over the past few years, it's become almost impossible to win a Hugo without releasing a short story or novella on-line for the voters to read ... I think the same is, to a lesser extent, happen

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"...a virtual world that will collapse onto the real world and subtly change our perception of it. Similar to a much more primitive version of the stuff Karl Schroeder was writing about in Lady o

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"To all the folks in the UK who've ordered copies of THE JENNIFER MORGUE and have just had their orders, at amazon.co.uk, canceled: Sorry." Looks like my TJM ARC just increased in value... :

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"Bob has actually fallen into James Bond's shoes and isn't filling them terribly well. He's not even filling his tux terribly well. In fact, he does not know how to do up a bow tie."

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"So here's my stab at explaining what happens when you hand a novel in, from the author's point of view (which is horribly skewed and subjective and nothing like the editor's point of view)."

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"Now, don't get me wrong. I still like traditional SF — hell, I sometimes even write it! But the underlying assumptions of much of it are so questionable that these days we need to approach them

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"The Power Boots use biofuels, such as biodiesel, vegetable oil, SVO, waste vegetable oil (WVO) and 12 inch pistons to propel their wearer up to 25mph and take strides of up to 12 feet." Cha

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"So I just had a big reality check on that "near future SF" novel I'm writing. No, it isn't "near future SF" — it's lab prototype stage already, and if I still want it to be S

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Ever the contrarian, Charles Stross weighs in on the Pluto debate.

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Charlie Stross lays into the current state of genre fiction...the 'new horror' gets a particularly vigorous kicking.

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SFSite reviews a Charlie Stross novel...so many have come out in the last few years that I've quite fallen behind. It may be time to splurge.

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Also does what it says on the tin.

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The Emerald City review of Stross's 'Glasshouse', complete with lengthy examination of parts of it that may ire feminists. Controversy!

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SF Site's Peter Tillman takes on the latest Charles Stross novel.

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Charles Stross discusses his novel-in-progress, via the history of the worldwide web, roleplaying games, virtual reality and a whole lot more.

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NYT's Itzkoff reviews (amongst others) the latest Charles Stross novel, 'Glasshouse'. Coming from Itzkoff, this is a pretty good review by all accounts. Login with BugMeNot. Link via Mr. Stross himsel

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...that Charles Stross has been awarded an 'Outstanding Contibution to Transhumanism' award from the World Transhumanist Association. He's not entirely sure why he's won, but he's pretty chuffed anywa

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Charles Stross cuts through the Guantanamo bullsh*t

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Charles Stross demolishes the immigrants / ID cards hoo-hah

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News on forthcoming titles from one of the best SF writers about

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Discussion of narrative modes

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