While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
Charles StrossLike the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
Charles StrossWhat I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.
Charles StrossTime is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
Charles Stross