The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for. Charles Stross chaffchallengedecide share on social
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. Charles Stross beardevelopgenerate Change image and share on social
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description. Charles Stross artautodidactcondition share on social
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human condition - needs to broaden its definition of the human condition. Because the human condition isn't immutable and doomed to remain uniform forever. Charles Stross bringbroadencondition share on social
