Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.
Charles StrossI'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
Charles StrossWriting your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
Charles Stross