Charles Stross Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).

  Charles Stross

  Rpgs, Groups, Gone

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

• What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

  Charles Stross

  Car, Today, Life Is

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

• Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Views, Fans

• My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

  Charles Stross

  Running, Europe, Usa

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