Charles Stross

Manfred Macx es un emprendedor altruista: su trabajo consiste en hacer ricos a los demás. Para ello se especializa en estar conectado al flujo de información constante que es la característica principal de la sociedad del futuro próximo, y de él extrae originales ideas que pueden cambiar el mundo, y a menudo lo hacen. Pero Macx es algo más: con sus implantes y su filosofía, está dos pasos por delante de la ola tecnológica. Y puede ver claramente que se aproxima la singularidad. En las primeras décadas del siglo XXI, el mundo se convulsiona en la agonía de un parto superlativo: poco a poco, se acerca el momento en que la mayor parte de la capacidad de procesamiento será artificial, no nacida, y entonces la humanidad habrá quedado obsoleta.

His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from spreading ideas around, putting people in touch with one another and leaving a spray of technologies in his wake. He lives at the cutting edge of intelligence amplification technology, but even Manfred can take on too much. And when his pet robot cat picks up some interesting information from the SETI data, his world - and the world of his descendants - is turned on its head.

Del rango de William Gibson, Neal Stephenson y Bruce Sterling (Library Journal) con novelas tan visionarias como Cielo de Singularidad ("una lectura con un poder de entretenimiento fuera de lo común", The Washington Post Book World), Iron Sunrise ("[un] pasatiempo intelectual excelente de tipo hipercinetico", Locus), y Accelerando ("un thriller de Hollywood con un corazon ciberpunk", Entertainment Weekly), Charles Stross sigue trazando el futuro de la humanidad con una imaginacion ilimitada... Cuando Robin se despierta en una clinica, habiendo perdido la mayor parte de la memoria, no tarda mucho en descubrir que hay alguien que esta intentando matarlo. Estamos en el siglo XXVII, cuando el viaje interestelar se hace por puertas de teletransporte y las guerras se llevan a cabo mediante gusanos de red que censuran la personalidad de los refugiados, tomando como punto de mira a los historiadores. La guerra civil ha terminado, y Robin ha sido desmovilizado, pero alguien quiere terminar con el por algo que su identidad anterior sabia. Intentando huir de un perseguidor inhumano y buscando un sitio donde esconderse, se presenta voluntario para participar en una sociedad experimental -la Prision-, construida con el objetivo de recrear una cultura preacelerada. A cada participante se le asigna una identidad anonima: parece el escondrijo ideal para un posthumano a la fuga. Pero se trata de un ambiente del que no hay modo de escapar, y Robin tendra que someterse a un cambio aun mas radical, quedando a merced de su propia psique desequilibrada...

From the Hugo Award-winning author of "The Rhesus Chart" comes another supernatural case from The Laundry Files... Dominique O Brien her friends call her Mo lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they re boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthine secret circles of Her Majesty s Government, they re operatives working for the nation s occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity. Unfortunately, one of those supernatural threats has come between Mo and Bob. An antique violin, an Erich Zahn original, made of white human bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues and her husband. And despite Mo s proficiency as a world-class violinist, it cannot be controlled "

Welcome to Britain under the New Management! The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he's dead. But though she's now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she's not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge - and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions. Then an emissary of the Prime Minister arrives with an offer that she absolutely can't . . . well, you know.This is the final novel in the Laundry Files spin-off trilogy that began with Dead Lies Dreaming and continued with Quantum of Nightmares.'Grim, hilarious, inventive - make the video game now please' Tamsyn Muir

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she's in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . .Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn't again get entangled with Eve Starkey's bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she's pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results...

En ce début de XXIe siècle, être courtier en idées de technologies de pointe n’est pas sans risque. L’idéaliste Manfred Macx en sait quelque chose : depuis qu’il milite pour l’open-source et pour les

En ce début de XXIe siècle, être courtier en idées de technologies de pointe n’est pas sans risque. L’idéaliste Manfred Macx en sait quelque chose : depuis qu’il milite pour l’open-source et pour les

Neptunes Brood is a brand new space opera from science fiction legend Charles Stross. Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Hugo Award for Best Novel.She was looking for her sister. She found Atlantis.Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing, she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys. In a universe with no faster-than-light travel thats a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krinas tail, by the privateers chasing her sisters life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.

Dark State is the second book in a thrilling series - set in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series. This book follows Empire Games. In the near future, one America is experiencing its first technological revolution - whilst in a parallel world, the United States is a hi-tech police state. But both timelines are poised for conflict. Miriam Burgeson's America is heading for civil war. However, a high profile defection might avert this crisis, if only Miriam and her agents can arrange it in time. And Rita Douglas, rival US spy, arrives during this turmoil. Rita's world is rocked when she realizes Miriam is her birth mother, changing her own mission irrevocably. Then her United States discovers yet another parallel earth, and the remains of an advanced society. Something destroyed that civilization, Rita's people are about to rouse it - and two worlds will face the consequences.

Es el siglo veinticinco. La humanidad ha sido revolucionada por el contacto con el Eschaton, una casi omnipotente inteligencia artificial capaz de controlar los viajes en el tiempo. Mientras, en la Nueva Republica, toda la tecnologia avanzada excepto la necesaria para el viaje interestelar ha sido prohibida. Pero el decadente mundo de Rochald, una colonia de la Nueva Republica, ha sido revolucionado por la influencia de una misteriosa inteligencia alienigena, El Festival, aparentemente dispuesta a concederles cualquier cosa imaginable a cambio de muy poco. La Nueva Republica reacciona enviando su flota a traves del tiempo para coger al Festival por sorpresa. El ingeniero espacial Martin Springfield y la diplomatica de las Naciones Unidas Rachel Mansour abandonan la Tierra y se dirigen al mundo capital de la Nueva Republica, con la mision de evitar la crisis o sabotear la flota de guerra de la Nueva Republica a toda costa. Charles Stross es uno de los maximos exponentes en la actualidad de la ciencia ficcion del tercer milenio y un destacado integrante de la nueva ola de autores influidos por la revolucion de la red.

Una estrella G2 no explota sin más, al menos sin interferencias externas, así que los supervivientes del planeta Moscú, aniquilado en un suceso así, han lanzado un contraataque contra el responsable mas probable: el sistema vecino de Nueva Dresde. Pero Nueva Dresde no es la responsable, y mientras los letales misiles se aproximan a su objetivo, a Rachel Mansour, representante de los intereses de la Vieja Tierra, se le encomienda la mision de averiguar quien ha sido. Frente a ella se encuentra un enemigo desconocido, ademas de inimaginable, y en juego esta no solo el destino de Nueva Dresde, sino tambien el orden del universo entero. Y la unica persona que conoce la identidad de ese enemigo es una descreida adolescente que no tiene ni la menor idea de lo que esta pasando...

Una estrella G2 no explota sin más, así que los supervivientes del planeta Moscú, aniquilado en un suceso así, han lanzado un contraataque contra el responsable más probable: el sistema vecino de Nueva Dresde.Pero Nueva Dresde no es la responsable, y mientras los misiles se aproximan a su objetivo, a Rachel Mansour, representante de los intereses de la Vieja Tierra, se le encomienda la mision de averiguar quien ha sido. Frente a ella se encuentra un enemigo desconocido, y en juego esta no solo el destino de Nueva Dresde, sino tambien el orden del universo entero. Y la unica persona que conoce la identidad de ese enemigo es una descreida adolescente que no tiene ni la menor idea de lo que esta pasando....

The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Strosss witty Laundry Files seriesBob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bobs under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safebut then he went and got Noticed.Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Its a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now shes in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . .Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldnt again get entangled with Eve Starkeys bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right.Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now shes pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head.All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results...For all of Strosss genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books Ive ever readTamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth

DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile. Anwar: As an ex-con, youd like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as youve landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that youre Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, youve no idea what comes next. The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburghs undergrowth. But thats OK, because as a distraction, youre project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But whos killing off potential recruits?So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out.

It has been said that the natural state of science fiction is the short story. If that is so, you wont find a better exploration of that state than Charles Strosss new collection. Centred around an original and previously unpublished novella, Palimpsest, WIRELESS is a showcase of some of the best short SF of the 21st century. With an introduction from the author and containing hitherto uncollected works such as Missile Gap, Trunk and Disorderly and Rogue Farm, and some gems previously available only in small press publications, such as A Colder War and Antibodies, WIRELESS will illustrate perfectly why award-winning editor and anthologist, Gardner Dozois, once declared:Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.