Frases célebres de Charles Stross
“¡Policía genética! ¡Usted, expulsado ahora mismo del acervo genético!”
The Atrocity Archives
The Atrocity Archives
Charles Stross: Frases en inglés
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 3, “Tangled Up in Grue” (p. 53)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 2, “Going Down to Dunwich” (pp. 42-43)
“I’m only twenty-eight: I’m too young to die and too old to drive fast.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 19)
“Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 18)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
The Concrete Jungle (p. 305)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
The Concrete Jungle (p. 275)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
“Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he’s finished annoying you?”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004), Chapter 7, “Bad Moon Rising” (p. 163)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Ken MacLeod in Introduction: Charlie’s Demons (p. xvi)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
Charles Stross libro Rule 34
Fuente: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 1, “Liz: Red Pill, Blue Pill” (p. 16)
Charles Stross libro Accelerando
A dry chuckle: “I used to try to believe a different one before breakfast every day, you know, just in case Pascal’s wager was right—exploring the phase-space of all possible resurrections, you know? But I think at this point we can agree that Dawkins was right. Human consciousness is vulnerable to certain types of transmissible memetic virus, and religions that promise life beyond death are a particularly pernicious example because they exploit our natural aversion to halting states.”
Fuente: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 9 (“Survivor”), pp. 396-397
Charles Stross libro Accelerando
If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?
Fuente: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147
Charles Stross libro Accelerando
Fuente: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), p. 130
“Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?”
Charles Stross libro Accelerando
“Very long-term—at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.”
Fuente: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), pp. 14-15
“Talk you of tradition in middle of singularity.”
Charles Stross libro Singularity Sky
Sister Seventh twisted her head around to look out the windows at the foggy evening drizzle beyond. “Perplexity maximizes. Not understand singularity is discontinuity with all tradition? Revolution is necessary; deconstruct the old, ring in the new. Before, I questioned your sapience. Now, your sanity questionable; sapience not. Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationality!”
Fuente: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 144)
Charles Stross libro Singularity Sky
Fuente: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 143)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 7, “Officer Friendly” (p. 113)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 301)
Charles Stross Saturn's Children
Fuente: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 17, “Interview with the Domina” (p. 304)
“The number one crime in any age: offending the money.”
Charles Stross Saturn's Children
Fuente: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 16, “Long-Lost Sibs” (p. 268)
Charles Stross Saturn's Children
Fuente: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 15, “”Revising My Opinions” (pp. 253-254)
Contexto: She’s silent for only a moment. “Ask not what it’s gotten you, kid. Ask what it’s saved you from.”
Charles Stross Saturn's Children
Fuente: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 9, “Coin-Operated Boy” (p. 157)
“Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Epilogue, “Debrief” (p. 360)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 347)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 321)
“Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 296)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 244)
“Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 236)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 6, “Leviathan’s Representative” (p. 193)
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 40)
“A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 37)
