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Charles Stross is an English author who writes science fiction. Though, Stross hates being categorized as a pure science fiction writer because he has dabbled in fantasy and Lovecraftian Horror. His determination to experiment has always made Stross’ books difficult to market.

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Order of Singularity Sky Series

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1 Singularity Sky 2003 Description / Buy
2 Iron Sunrise 2004 Description / Buy
3 Accelerando 2005 Description / Buy

Order of The Merchant Princes Series

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1 The Family Trade 2004 Description / Buy
2 The Hidden Family 2005 Description / Buy
3 The Clan Corporate 2006 Description / Buy
4 The Merchants' War 2007 Description / Buy
5 The Revolution Business 2009 Description / Buy
6 The Trade of Queens 2010 Description / Buy

Order of Laundry Files Series

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1 The Atrocity Archives 2004 Description / Buy
2 The Jennifer Morgue 2006 Description / Buy
3 Pimpf (Short Story) 2006 Description / Buy
4 Down on the Farm (Short Story) 2010 Description / Buy
5 Equoid (Short Story) 2010 Description / Buy
6 Overtime (Short Story) 2010 Description / Buy
7 The Fuller Memorandum 2010 Description / Buy
8 The Apocalypse Codex 2012 Description / Buy
9 The Rhesus Chart 2014 Description / Buy
10 The Annihilation Score 2015 Description / Buy
11 The Nightmare Stacks 2016 Description / Buy
12 The Delirium Brief 2017 Description / Buy
13 The Labyrinth Index 2018 Description / Buy
14 Dead Lies Dreaming 2020 Description / Buy
15 Quantum of Nightmares 2022 Description / Buy
16 Escape from Yokai Land (Short Story) 2022 Description / Buy
17 Season of Skulls 2023 Description / Buy
18 A Conventional Boy 2025 Description / Buy

Order of The New Management Series

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1 Dead Lies Dreaming 2020 Description / Buy
2 Quantum of Nightmares 2022 Description / Buy
3 Season of Skulls 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Laundry Files Collections

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1 Three Tales from the Laundry Files (Short Story) 2014 Description / Buy

Order of Halting State Series

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1 Halting State 2007 Description / Buy
2 Rule 34 2011 Description / Buy

Order of Freyaverse Series

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1 Saturn's Children 2008 Description / Buy
2 Neptune's Brood 2013 Description / Buy

Order of Empire Games Series

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1 Empire Games 2017 Description / Buy
2 Dark State 2018 Description / Buy
3 Invisible Sun 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Charles Stross Standalone Novels

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1 Glasshouse 2006 Description / Buy
2 Missile Gap (Short Story) 2006 Description / Buy
3 Scratch Monkey 2011 Description / Buy
4 The Rapture of the Nerds ( With: Cory Doctorow) 2012 Description / Buy

Order of Charles Stross Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Approaching Xanadu (Short Story) 1989 Description / Buy
2 A Colder War (Short Story) 2000 Description / Buy
3 Lobsters (Short Story) 2001 Description / Buy
4 Halo (Short Story) 2002 Description / Buy
5 Nightfall (Short Story) 2003 Description / Buy
6 Festival of Fools 2003 Description / Buy
7 The Concrete Jungle (Short Story) 2004 Description / Buy
8 Elector (Short Story) 2004 Description / Buy
9 Palimpsest (Short Story) 2009 Description / Buy
10 A Tall Tail (Short Story) 2012 Description / Buy

Order of Charles Stross Short Story Collections

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1 Toast, and Other Stories 2002 Description / Buy
2 Wireless 2009 Description / Buy

Order of Charles Stross Non-Fiction Books

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1 The Web Architect's Handbook 1996 Description / Buy

Order of Warhammer 40,000 Series

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1 Deathwing ( With: Dan Abnett, Ian Watson, Storm Constantine, Gav Thorpe, William King, Graham McNeill, Neil Jones, David Pringle, Neil McIntosh) 1980 Description / Buy
2 Draco ( By: Ian Watson) 1990 Description / Buy
3 Inquisitor ( By: Ian Watson) 1990 Description / Buy
4 Harlequin ( By: Ian Watson) 1994 Description / Buy
5 Chaos Child ( By: Ian Watson) 1994 Description / Buy
6 Eye of Terror ( By: Barrington J. Bayley) 1999 Description / Buy
7 The Wine Of Dreams ( By: Brian Craig) 2000 Description / Buy
8 Dark Imperium ( By: Gav Thorpe, William King, Simon Jowett, Matthew Farrer, Ben Counter, Barrington J. Bayley, Marc Gascoigne, Andy Chambers, Robert Earl, Neil Rutledge) 2001 Description / Buy
9 Pawns of Chaos ( By: Brian Craig) 2001 Description / Buy
10 Storm of Iron ( By: Graham McNeill) 2002 Description / Buy
11 Words of Blood ( By: Christian Dunn, Marc Gascoigne) 2002 Description / Buy
12 Farseer ( By: William King) 2002 Description / Buy
13 Crucible of War ( By: Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, Christian Dunn, Matthew Farrer, Sandy Mitchell, Simon Spurrier, Jonathan Green, Marc Gascoigne, Edward Rusk, David Charters, Matt Ralphs) 2003 Description / Buy
14 Lone Wolves (Short Story) ( By: Dan Abnett) 2003 Description / Buy
15 What Price Victory ( By: Marc Gascoigne) 2004 Description / Buy
16 The Inquisition War ( By: Ian Watson) 2004 Description / Buy
17 Iron Hands ( By: Jonathan Green) 2004 Description / Buy
18 Bringers of Death ( By: Simon Jowett, Mike Lee, Christian Dunn, Sandy Mitchell, Marc Gascoigne, Mitchel Scanlon, C.S. Goto) 2005 Description / Buy
19 Let the Galaxy Burn ( By: Dan Abnett, Gav Thorpe, William King, Graham McNeill, Christian Dunn, Ben Counter, Marc Gascoigne, Mark Brendan, Jonahan Curran, C.S. Goto, Andras Millward, Neil Rutledge) 2006 Description / Buy
20 Tales from the Dark Millennium ( By: Dan Abnett, Mike Lee, Graham McNeill, Christian Dunn, Steve Parker, Marc Gascoigne, Matt Keefe, C.S. Goto, Darren-Jon Ashmore) 2006 Description / Buy
21 The Inquisition (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2007 Description / Buy
22 Blood & Thunder (Short Story) ( By: Dan Abnett) 2008 Description / Buy
23 Relentless ( By: Richard Williams) 2008 Description / Buy
24 Planetkill ( By: Graham McNeill, Matthew Farrer, Steve Parker, Lindsey Priestley, Richard Williams, Henry Zou, Simon Dyton, Robey Jenkins) 2008 Description / Buy
25 Assault on Black Reach (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2009 Description / Buy
26 Thunder from Fenris ( By: Nick Kyme) 2009 Description / Buy
27 Dawn of War II ( By: Chris Roberson) 2009 Description / Buy
28 Atlas Infernal ( By: Rob Sanders) 2011 Description / Buy
29 Sabbat Worlds: A Good Man (Short Story) ( By: Sandy Mitchell) 2011 Description / Buy
30 The Alien Beast Within (Short Story) ( By: Ian Watson) 2012 Description / Buy
31 Iron Warrior (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2012 Description / Buy
32 The Iron Without (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2012 Description / Buy
33 The Beast of Calth (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2012 Description / Buy
34 Flesh (Short Story) ( By: Chris Wraight) 2012 Description / Buy
35 Sons of Russ ( By: Nick Kyme) 2012 Description / Buy
36 Treacheries of the Space Marines ( By: Christian Dunn) 2012 Description / Buy
37 Perfection (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2012 Description / Buy
38 Mephiston: Lord of Death (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2013 Description / Buy
39 Down Amongst the Dead Men (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2013 Description / Buy
40 Crucible (Short Story) ( By: John French) 2013 Description / Buy
41 Spirit War (Short Story) ( By: Rob Sanders) 2013 Description / Buy
42 The Path Forsaken (Short Story) ( By: Rob Sanders) 2013 Description / Buy
43 We Are One (Short Story) ( By: John French) 2013 Description / Buy
44 Iron Harvest (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2013 Description / Buy
45 Engine of Mork (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2013 Description / Buy
46 Cold Blood (Short Story) ( By: David Guymer) 2013 Description / Buy
47 Cold Steel (Short Story) ( By: David Guymer) 2013 Description / Buy
48 Machine Spirit (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2013 Description / Buy
49 Nurgle's Gift & The Tallyman (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2014 Description / Buy
50 Wolves of Fenris (Short Story) ( By: Chris Wraight) 2014 Description / Buy
51 Knights of the Imperium (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2014 Description / Buy
52 The Tribute of Flesh (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2014 Description / Buy
53 Valedor ( By: Guy Haley) 2014 Description / Buy
54 The Last Days of Ector (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2014 Description / Buy
55 Devil’s Trappings (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2014 Description / Buy
56 The Carnac Campaign (Short Story) ( By: Rob Sanders) 2015 Description / Buy
57 The Cost of Command (Short Story) ( By: Sandy Mitchell) 2015 Description / Buy
58 Whiteout (Short Story) ( By: Andy Clark) 2015 Description / Buy
59 Necessary Evil (Short Story) ( By: Rob Sanders) 2015 Description / Buy
60 Grey Knights: Sons of Titan ( By: David Annandale) 2015 Description / Buy
61 Eye of the Dragon (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2015 Description / Buy
62 Dark City (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2015 Description / Buy
63 Siegemaster (Short Story) ( By: Chris Wraight) 2015 Description / Buy
64 The Prodigal (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2015 Description / Buy
65 The Staff of Asclepius (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2015 Description / Buy
66 Curse of the Wulfen ( By: David Annandale) 2016 Description / Buy
67 Total War: Lord of Chaos ( By: Rob Sanders) 2016 Description / Buy
68 Deathwatch: Swordwind (Short Story) ( By: Ian St. Martin) 2016 Description / Buy
69 The Burden of Angels (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2016 Description / Buy
70 The Dark Hollows of Memory (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2016 Description / Buy
71 The Prisoner (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2016 Description / Buy
72 The Heraclitus Effect (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2016 Description / Buy
73 Way of the Dead: Three Knights (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2016 Description / Buy
74 Prometheus Requiem (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2016 Description / Buy
75 Death and Dishonour ( By: Chris Wraight) 2016 Description / Buy
76 The Everliving Legion (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2016 Description / Buy
77 Warped Stars (Short Story) ( By: Ian Watson) 2016 Description / Buy
78 Becoming (Short Story) ( By: Andy Clark) 2016 Description / Buy
79 A Trick of the Light (Short Story) ( By: Joshua Reynolds) 2017 Description / Buy
80 The Vorago Fastness (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2017 Description / Buy
81 Kingsblade ( By: Andy Clark) 2017 Description / Buy
82 Dante ( By: Guy Haley) 2017 Description / Buy
83 Warlord: Fury of the God-Machine ( By: David Annandale) 2017 Description / Buy
84 Legacy of the Wulfen ( By: David Annandale, Robbie MacNiven) 2017 Description / Buy
85 Left for Dead (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2017 Description / Buy
86 Fearful Symmetries (Short Story) ( By: Rob Sanders) 2017 Description / Buy
87 Shroud of Night ( By: Andy Clark) 2017 Description / Buy
88 Soulfuel (Short Story) ( By: Rob Sanders) 2017 Description / Buy
89 The Path Unclear (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2017 Description / Buy
90 Exodus (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2017 Description / Buy
91 Champions of the Eternal War (Short Story) ( By: Joshua Reynolds) 2017 Description / Buy
92 Endurance (Short Story) ( By: Chris Wraight) 2017 Description / Buy
93 Sons of the Hydra ( By: Rob Sanders) 2017 Description / Buy
94 Knightsblade ( By: Andy Clark) 2018 Description / Buy
95 Lukas the Trickster ( By: Joshua Reynolds) 2018 Description / Buy
96 Defiant (Short Story) ( By: Andy Clark) 2018 Description / Buy
97 Crusade (Short Story) ( By: Andy Clark) 2018 Description / Buy
98 Choke Point (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2018 Description / Buy
99 The Lords of Silence ( By: Chris Wraight) 2018 Description / Buy
100 The Armour of Fate (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2018 Description / Buy
101 Lightning Run (Short Story) ( By: Peter McLean) 2018 Description / Buy
102 Judge of the Wastes ( By: David Annandale) 2018 Description / Buy
103 Masters of Stone and Steel ( By: Gav Thorpe, Nick Kyme) 2018 Description / Buy
104 Prophets of Waaagh! ( By: Guy Haley) 2018 Description / Buy
105 The Enemy of My Enemy (Short Story) ( By: Nate Crowley) 2018 Description / Buy
106 Spear of the Emperor ( By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden) 2018 Description / Buy
107 Celestine: The Living Saint ( By: Andy Clark) 2019 Description / Buy
108 Celestine: Revelation (Short Story) ( By: Andy Clark) 2019 Description / Buy
109 Sabbat Crusade: The Deeper Wounds (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2019 Description / Buy
110 Knights of Caliban ( By: Gav Thorpe) 2019 Description / Buy
111 Redemption Through Sacrifice (Short Story) ( By: Justin Woolley) 2019 Description / Buy
112 Agents of the Imperium ( By: David Annandale) 2019 Description / Buy
113 Servants of the Imperium ( By: Nick Kyme, Danie Ware, Ian St. Martin) 2019 Description / Buy
114 Born of the Storm (Short Story) ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2019 Description / Buy
115 To Speak as One (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2019 Description / Buy
116 Last Flight (Short Story) ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2019 Description / Buy
117 Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work ( By: Guy Haley) 2019 Description / Buy
118 The Strong Among Us ( By: Steve Lyons) 2019 Description / Buy
119 Inferno! Volume 4 ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2019 Description / Buy
120 The Colonel's Monograph ( By: Graham McNeill) 2019 Description / Buy
121 Ghosts of Iron (Short Story) ( By: Marc Collins) 2019 Description / Buy
122 Vaults of Obsidian ( By: David Annandale, Gav Thorpe, Nick Kyme, Darius Hinks, Joshua Reynolds, Guy Haley, J.C. Stearns, Denny Flowers, Nicholas Wolf) 2019 Description / Buy
123 Mark of Faith ( By: Rachel Harrison) 2019 Description / Buy
124 Assassinorum: Divine Sanction ( By: Robert Rath) 2019 Description / Buy
125 Journey of the Magi (Short Story) ( By: Jonathan Green) 2020 Description / Buy
126 Lord of the Dark Millennium ( By: Dan Abnett) 2020 Description / Buy
127 Knights of Macragge ( By: Nick Kyme) 2020 Description / Buy
128 The Adeptus Astartes ( By: Nick Kyme) 2020 Description / Buy
129 War in the Museum (Short Story) ( By: Robert Rath) 2020 Description / Buy
130 Where Dere’s da Warp Dere’s a Way (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2020 Description / Buy
131 Night Shriekers (Short Story) ( By: Justin Woolley) 2020 Description / Buy
132 Warriors and Warlords ( By: Gav Thorpe, Steve Lyons, Graham McNeill, Joshua Reynolds, Peter McLean, Guy Haley, Chris Wraight, Robbie MacNiven, Rachel Harrison, Phil Kelly, Matt Smith) 2020 Description / Buy
133 Savage (Short Story) ( By: Guy Haley) 2020 Description / Buy
134 The Oath in Darkness (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2020 Description / Buy
135 Unification (Short Story) ( By: Chris Wraight) 2020 Description / Buy
136 Empra (Short Story) ( By: Nate Crowley) 2020 Description / Buy
137 Indomitus ( By: Gav Thorpe) 2020 Description / Buy
138 The Karsharat Abomination (Short Story) ( By: George Mann) 2020 Description / Buy
139 Imperium at War ( By: Steve Lyons, Nate Crowley, Danie Ware, Thomas Parrott, Edoardo Albert) 2020 Description / Buy
140 Assassinorum: Iron Sight (Short Story) ( By: Robert Rath) 2020 Description / Buy
141 The Hammer and the Eagle: Icons of Warhammer ( By: Dan Abnett, David Annandale, Gav Thorpe, Graham McNeill, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Nick Kyme, Sandy Mitchell, Joshua Reynolds, Danie Ware, Guy Haley, Chris Wraight, David Guymer, Andy Clark, C.L. Werner, Justin D. Hill, Rachel Harrison, John French, Nick Horth) 2020 Description / Buy
142 Green and Grey (Short Story) ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2020 Description / Buy
143 Brutal Kunnin' ( By: Mike Brooks) 2020 Description / Buy
144 The Infinite and The Divine ( By: Robert Rath) 2020 Description / Buy
145 Nexus & Other Stories ( By: Dan Abnett, Steve Parker, Joshua Reynolds, Peter McLean, Mike Brooks, Danie Ware, Guy Haley, Chris Wraight, Rachel Harrison, Robert Rath, J.C. Stearns, Thomas Parrott, Phil Kelly, Marc Collins) 2020 Description / Buy
146 Darkness in the Blood: Blood Angels ( By: Guy Haley) 2020 Description / Buy
147 The Shapers of Scars (Short Story) ( By: Marc Collins) 2020 Description / Buy
148 Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint ( By: David Annandale) 2020 Description / Buy
149 Assassinorum: Live Wire (Short Story) ( By: Robert Rath) 2020 Description / Buy
150 Recongregator (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2021 Description / Buy
151 The Tear of Selevia (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2021 Description / Buy
152 The Labyrinth of Lost Souls (Short Story) ( By: Graham McNeill) 2021 Description / Buy
153 Warsphere (Short Story) ( By: Darius Hinks) 2021 Description / Buy
154 Silent Hunters ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2021 Description / Buy
155 Sabbat War ( By: Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, Matthew Farrer, Justin D. Hill, Rachel Harrison, John French, Edoardo Albert, John French Sloan) 2021 Description / Buy
156 The Twice-Dead King: Ruin ( By: Nate Crowley) 2021 Description / Buy
157 Da Gobbo's Revenge (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2021 Description / Buy
158 The Wolftime ( By: Gav Thorpe) 2021 Description / Buy
159 The Emperor's Sword (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2021 Description / Buy
160 Volpone Glory ( By: Nick Kyme) 2021 Description / Buy
161 Mad Dok (Short Story) ( By: Nate Crowley) 2021 Description / Buy
162 A Small Cog (Short Story) ( By: Mitchel Scanlon) 2022 Description / Buy
163 Krieg ( By: Steve Lyons) 2022 Description / Buy
164 Fool's Ruin (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2022 Description / Buy
165 Astorath: Angel of Mercy ( By: Guy Haley) 2022 Description / Buy
166 Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! ( By: Nate Crowley) 2022 Description / Buy
167 Assassinorum Kingmaker ( By: Robert Rath) 2022 Description / Buy
168 Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom ( By: Mike Brooks) 2022 Description / Buy
169 Sacred Hate (Short Story) ( By: David Annandale) 2022 Description / Buy
170 The Brightest And Best (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2022 Description / Buy
171 It Bleeds (Short Story) ( By: David Guymer) 2022 Description / Buy
172 Awakenings ( By: George Mann) 2022 Description / Buy
173 Helbrecht Knight Of The Throne ( By: Marc Collins) 2022 Description / Buy
174 Kasrkin ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2022 Description / Buy
175 Void King ( By: Marc Collins) 2022 Description / Buy
176 The Twice-Dead King: Reign ( By: Nate Crowley) 2022 Description / Buy
177 Renegades: Harrowmaster ( By: Mike Brooks) 2022 Description / Buy
178 Only War: Stories from the 41st Millennium ( By: Edoardo Albert) 2022 Description / Buy
179 Packin' Heat (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2022 Description / Buy
180 Less Than Human (Short Story) ( By: Steve Lyons) 2023 Description / Buy
181 The Bleeding Stars (Short Story) ( By: Robert Rath) 2023 Description / Buy
182 The Iron Kingdom ( By: Nick Kyme) 2023 Description / Buy
183 Warboss ( By: Mike Brooks) 2023 Description / Buy
184 The Lion: Son of the Forest ( By: Mike Brooks) 2023 Description / Buy
185 Cypher: Lord of the Fallen ( By: John French) 2023 Description / Buy
186 Forges of Mars ( By: Graham McNeill) 2023 Description / Buy
187 Once A Killer ( By: Mike Brooks) 2023 Description / Buy
188 Galaxy of Horrors ( By: Steve Lyons) 2023 Description / Buy
189 The Long Promise (Short Story) ( By: Mike Brooks) 2023 Description / Buy
190 The Price of Morkai (Short Story) ( By: Marc Collins) 2023 Description / Buy
191 God-Machines ( By: David Annandale) 2023 Description / Buy
192 One Million Years (Short Story) ( By: Nate Crowley) 2023 Description / Buy
193 Sea of Souls ( By: Chris Wraight) 2024 Description / Buy
194 Yarrick: The Omnibus ( By: David Annandale) 2024 Description / Buy
195 Da Big Dakka ( By: Mike Brooks) 2024 Description / Buy
196 Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives ( By: Mike Brooks) 2024 Description / Buy
197 The High Kâhl's Oath ( By: Gav Thorpe) 2024 Description / Buy
198 Solemnity (Short Story) ( By: Nick Kyme) 2024 Description / Buy
199 Soldiers of the Imperium ( By: Steve Lyons) 2025 Description / Buy
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Charles Stross Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2001 2001 Description / Buy
2 Supermen 2002 Description / Buy
3 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 2002 Description / Buy
4 Year's Best SF 8 2003 Description / Buy
5 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 2003 Description / Buy
6 ReVisions 2004 Description / Buy
7 The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition 2004 Description / Buy
8 Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004 2004 Description / Buy
9 One Million A.D. 2005 Description / Buy
10 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005 Description / Buy
11 The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006 Description / Buy
12 The Space Opera Renaissance 2006 Description / Buy
13 Rewired 2007 Description / Buy
14 Space Opera 2007 Description / Buy
15 Fables from the Fountain 2011 Description / Buy
16 The Book of Cthulhu 2011 Description / Buy
17 The Recent Weird 2011 Description / Buy
18 New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird 2011 Description / Buy
19 The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 2012 Description / Buy
20 Digital Rapture 2012 Description / Buy
21 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition 2013 Description / Buy
22 Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013 2013 Description / Buy
23 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013 Description / Buy
24 Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 2013 Description / Buy
25 Zombies: More Recent Dead 2014 Description / Buy
26 More Recent Weird 2015 Description / Buy
27 Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition 2017 Description / Buy
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The author started writing in 1999. While his first published novel was ‘Singularity Sky’, he had written a novella called ‘Atrocity Archive’ some years earlier that his newly acquired agent loved but also rejected because she didn’t expect anyone to publish it.

She argued that there was no way to identify the genre in which it could be marketed. It could have been horror, science fiction or humor. That scattered approach to storytelling drove the agent to compel Stross to pursue more mainstream stories.

So he temporarily shelved ‘Atrocity Archive’. Stross finally got it published in an obscure Scottish magazine, eventually attracting the interest of Golden Griffin, a small publisher in the US. He wrote ‘The Concrete Jungle’ for them. Golden Griffin chose to publish the story along with ‘Atrocity Archives’ in a volume also titled ‘The Atrocity Archives’.

While ‘Singularity Sky’ had attracted all the right attention, it was The Atrocity Archives and, in particular, ‘The Concrete Jungle’ that placed Charles Stross on the publishing map. The award it won finally convinced Stross’ agent of the potential some of the writer’s experimental stories held despite the marketing challenge they would present.

While Charles Stross went on to dip his toes into the thriller and Fantasy sub-genres, his fans continue to categorize him as a hardcore SF writer, primarily because of the intellectual approach the author always takes with his stories.

Born in 1964 in Leeds, England, Stross took an interest in Science Fiction at an early age. He read every notable work in the genre that he could find. His education led him into the medical field. Despite earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and putting the skills of his trade into practice, Stross decided to extend his educational journey by pursuing a post-graduate computer science degree from Bradford University.

Before 1999, he was a pretty competent programmer who produced literary works of a technical nature in his field of expertise. He continued along that same path, as a technical writer, even after landing an agent. But once fiction took a hold of his heart, he embraced it wholeheartedly, never looking back.

Charles Stross’ political views as a liberal democrat permeate a lot of the stories he writes. Stross expects science fiction to mirror the real world, to show readers what mankind could become, for better or for worse. He has always supported the concept of e-publishing, going so far as to upload some of his books online where his fans can read them for free.

He believes that young authors need the internet to grow but traditional publishing will continue to oppose it because it stifles their earnings.

Charles Stross Awards

Stross has received Hugo, British Science Fiction Association, Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Prometheus Award nominations. He also won the Hugo and Prometheus Awards for ‘Iron Sunrise’ and ‘Glasshouse’.

Best Charles Stross Books

Stross’ fans love all the attention he injects into building the societies and communities which constitute the futuristic settings of his stories, with some of the best books in his bibliography including:

Singularity Sky: The Eschaton changed the destiny of Earth. A sentient AI created by mankind in the 21st Century, the Eschaton brought about the greatest technological revolution in human history. For all the blessings it delivered, the AI had one rule. Mankind was forbidden from tampering with time, lest they suffer the violent ire of the Eschaton.

Now the human race has gone to the stars, colonizing new worlds and creating a new society known as the New Republic. When an alien race descends upon the New Republic and gives its people a bevy of forbidden technologies, a spaceship engineer and a diplomat are dispatched to quell the resulting revolutionary turmoil before Eschaton takes drastic measures.

Atrocity Archives: Bob Howard’s world was boring. Yes, he worked for a secret government agency. However, while his fellow agents went on missions to save the world, the techie stayed behind to restore lost data. When Bob finally gets noticed and thrown into active duty, he is forced to face off against dimension-hopping terrorists and ancient deities with nefarious intentions.

When Does The Next Charles Stross book come out?

The next book by Charles Stross is A Conventional Boy and will be released on January, 7th 2025. It is the newest book in the Laundry Files Series.

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