Charlie Stross Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Day of the Jackal
Frederick ForsythCharlie Stross@bruces Wasn't this the deep cover identity trick Frederick Forsyth described in "The Day of the Jackal"? You can fix it in time with a DNA database. Just mandate matches to verified relatives for the security clearance.
Paperback, 2012
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Quantum of Nightmares
Charles StrossCharlie StrossNew book cover just dropped (generated by https://t.co/VwzpB0jqrd)! "Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross" @pnh @Jenni_Hill https://t.co/7iqe1IMz8u
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Hot Moon
Alan SmaleCharlie Stross@Cmdr_Hadfield @AmazonKindle Huh! Sounds a little bit like "Hot Moon" by Alan Smale (pub. July 26th from Caezik SF & Fantasy): only that's an alt-hist set in a 1980 where the Moon Race continued, then the Cold War turned hot in lunar orbit …
Hardcover, 2022
$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vox
Christina DalcherCharlie Stross@hawkwing_lb Yes, exactly that. (Obligatory dystopian SF reference: Vox by Christina Dalcher. Brrr.)
Paperback, 2019
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strike: Liniertes A5 Notizbuch oder Heft für Schüler, Studenten und Erwachsene
Pm BooksCharlie StrossYou can't go down in the history books as the strike-breaking PM who ordered the army to open fire on the starving nurses if you don't starve them into striking first. https://t.co/ORuMUyUVRF
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The Viscount Who Loved Me [Tv Tie-In]: Bridgerton
Julia QuinnCharlie Stross@quicunquevult "There are eight Bridgerton novels. There are probably going to be eight series of Bridgerton." Yeah but this is TV: if the format is successful they'll make AT LEAST ten seasons before they implode in a fiery crash/dalek invasion (because Julia Quinn isn't in the writers room).
Paperback, Mass Market, 2022
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blindsight
Peter WattsCharlie Stross@Goblinkatie @MyzLilith You haven't read "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, have you? https://t.co/BzdKBaPgtY
Paperback, 2020
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Richard HofstadterCharlie Stross@SHM5 Naah, see also "Kooks" by Donna Kossy: it was circulating long before Illuminatus!. (Or read "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" by Richard Hofstader.) It's like blaming me, via "Accelerando", for singularitarianism being a thing.
Paperback, 2008
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stars My Destination
Alfred BesterCharlie Stross@TheAuthorGuy Doctor Adder by K. W. Jeter (predated Neuromancer, was circulating for 7 years before cyberpunk came into fashion and it finally sold). "Hardwired" by Walter Jon Williams (similar time-to-market issue). "Schismatrix" by @bruces. "The Stars my Destination", Alfred Bester. …
Paperback, 2011
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Anne of Geierstein; Or, the Maiden of the Mist, Volume 2
Walter ScottCharlie Stross@mightymur @Nestlenightmare I just ran across the factoid that when Walter Scott's anonymous novel "Ivanhoe" debuted in 1819, he printed 10K copies that sold for £1 10s. each ($150 today). (Back then it was self-pub all the way in today's terms. He was a bestselling poet, but a near-unknown novelist.)
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