Charles Stross bibliography explained

This is a list of books by British hard science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and space opera author Charles Stross.

Bibliography

Stand-alone novels

Eschaton series

Stross has announced that he is unlikely to write a third book in this series.[1]

The Laundry Files

See main article: The Laundry Files. A series of science fiction spy thrillers about Bob Howard (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant, now field agent working for British government agency "the Laundry", which deals with occult threats. Influenced by Lovecraft's visions of the future, and set in a world where a computer and the right mathematical equations is just as useful a tool-set for calling up horrors from other dimensions as a spell-book and a pentagram on the floor.

  1. The Atrocity Archives (2004,)
    • Also contains the extra story The Concrete Jungle, set about a year after the main story.[2] Best Novella winner, 2005 Hugo Awards[3]
  2. The Jennifer Morgue (2006, – set around three years after The Concrete Jungle[4])
    • Also contains the extra story Pimpf, set within a year of the main story
  3. The Fuller Memorandum (2010, – set about eight years after The Atrocity Archives)
  4. The Apocalypse Codex (2012 – set about nine months after The Fuller Memorandum)
  5. The Rhesus Chart, (2014,)[5]
  6. The Annihilation Score (2015,)[6]
  7. The Nightmare Stacks (2016,)[7]
  8. The Delirium Brief (2017,)
  9. The Labyrinth Index (2018,)[8]

Tales of the New Management

Tales of the New Management is a spin-off from the main series, set after CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN.

  1. Dead Lies Dreaming (2020,)
  2. Quantum of Nightmares (2022,)[9]
  3. Season of Skulls (2023,)[10]

Novellas

Game

Stross also authorised, but did not write, an official role-playing game, The Laundry (2010,, Gareth Hanrahan, published by Cubicle 7)[12] [13] and a number of supplements based on the "Bob Howard – Laundry" series.[14] The system uses an adaptation of the Call of Cthulhu RPG rules (under licence from Chaosium).

The Merchant Princes series

The Merchant Princes is a series in which some humans have an ability to travel between parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology. This series is science fiction, even though it was originally marketed by the publisher as fantasy. It was originally intended to be a trilogy, but at the end the writing of the first novel, the publisher requested that it be split for shorter length, and this length carried over to the other novels.The first three books were collectively nominated for and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2007.

  1. The Family Trade (2004,)
  2. The Hidden Family (2005,)
  3. The Clan Corporate (2006,)
  4. The Merchants' War (2007,)
  5. The Revolution Business (2009,)
  6. The Trade of Queens (2010,)
  7. Empire Games (2017,)
  8. Dark State (2018,)
  9. Invisible Sun (2021,)

The first six books were later re-edited back into the originally intended form as three longer novels.[15] The new books were released in the UK beginning in April 2013,[16] and in DRM-free format in the United States in January 2014.

  1. The Bloodline Feud (contains The Family Trade and The Hidden Family)
  2. The Traders' War (contains The Clan Corporate and The Merchants' War)
  3. The Revolution Trade (contains The Revolution Business and The Trade of Queens)

Halting State series

Science-fiction/crime novels set 'fifteen minutes in the future' which concentrate on life in the early 21st century, which are centered in Edinburgh in an independent Scotland, and how innovations in policing, surveillance, economics, computer games, the internet, memes and other inventions may change our lives in the future. Both novels are told in second-person viewpoint. The series was originally planned to be a trilogy but Stross claimed his current plot idea were mooted by the Snowden revelations and he was no longer planning a third book.

Saturn's Children series

Stross's space opera series, featuring the android society that develops after the extinction of humanity. Stross has referred to the setting for these stories as the "Freyaverse."[22]

Omnibus titles

The Science Fiction Book Club has published omnibus editions in the US that combine two books, without new material.

Collections

Short fiction

Non-fiction

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Books I will not write #4: Space Pirates of KPMG - Charlie's Diary.
  2. Web site: The Laundry Files: an updated chronology. 2020-10-16. 2022-02-09. Charlie's Diary. Stross. Charles.
  3. Web site: 2005 Hugo Awards . The Hugo Awards . 5 February 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090802230956/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/credits/ . 2 August 2009 .
  4. Web site: Laundry reading order - Charlie's Diary.
  5. Web site: Rhesus Chart: blood dripping fresh ... . 1 July 2014 . Stross . Charles . Charlie's Diary . 1 July 2014.
  6. Web site: The myth of heroism . 26 May 2014 . Stross . Charles . Charlie's Diary . 19 May 2014.
  7. Web site: Spoiler Thread . 3 July 2014 . Stross . Charles . Charlie's Diary . 3 July 2014.
  8. Web site: Stross . Charles . Fiction by Charles Stross: FAQ . 18 July 2017.
  9. Web site: Quantum of Nightmares . 29 December 2021 . Stross . Charles . Charlie's Diary . 21 December 2021.
  10. Web site: Season of Skulls . 2023-03-22 . Tor Publishing . en-US .
  11. Web site: Do my Laundry. 2023-09-01. 2023-09-27. Charlie's Diary. Stross. Charles.
  12. Web site: A message from our sponsors . 13 June 2011 . Stross . Charles . 12 December 2010 . Charlie's Diary.
  13. Web site: Charles Stross' "The Laundry Files" RPG Announced . 13 June 2011 . UK Roleplayers . 10 March 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727144521/http://www.ukroleplayers.com/latest-news/charles-stross-the-laundry-files-rpg-announced/ . 27 July 2011 . dead.
  14. Web site: The Laundry . 13 June 2011 . Cubicle 7 Entertainment Web Store . 7 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707175151/http://shop.cubicle7store.com/epages/es113347.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es113347_shop/Categories/The_Laundry . dead .
  15. Web site: Commercial announcement . Charlie's Diary . 31 January 2014.
  16. Web site: Stross . Charles . Announcement: Merchant Princes relaunch in the UK . 12 September 2012 . 10 September 2012.
  17. Web site: 2008 Hugo Award Nominees Best Novel: Halting State . March 2003 . Official Site of The Hugo Awards .
  18. The 5-year gap is established several times early in the novel during chapters from Liz Kavanaugh's point of view - a convenient way to establish this, since she appears in both (novels); while she refers to the events of the preceding novel euphemistically, it's pretty clear she's describing the same events, if in five-years-on perspective...
  19. Web site: A press release, or something similar. Stross, Charles. 17 December 2010.
  20. Web site: Stross. Charles. PSA: Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy. 9 December 2013.
  21. He more recently wrote: "this outcome [Scottish independence election] sort of rules out writing an explicit sequel to "Halting State" and "Rule 34"" - Web site: Stross. Charles. The Morning After. 19 September 2014. 21 May 2015. - but at least implies in the same paragraph that a "third second-person near-future Scottish crime novel" (a less explicit sequel?) may still be in the works.
  22. Web site: Stross . Charles . Crib Sheet: Neptune's Brood . Charlie's Diary . September 15, 2014 . March 7, 2020.
  23. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Saturn's Children by Charles Stross . . 2008 . January 4, 2015.
  24. Web site: Saturn's Children by Charles Stross . . November 2008 . 37 . January 4, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150106213129/http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book-review/saturns-children/charles-stross . January 6, 2015 . dead .
  25. Web site: Review of Saturn's Children by Charles Stross . SFFaudio.com . Jesse . Willis . April 26, 2010 . January 6, 2015.
  26. Web site: Stross . Charles . Short Story: "Bit Rot" . Antipope.org . 16 June 2013 . 6 January 2015.
  27. Web site: Book Review: Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan . Nigel . Seel . ScienceFiction.com . April 11, 2011 . January 6, 2015.
  28. Web site: Engineering Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan . Robert E. . Waters . Tangent . March 8, 2011 . January 6, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170413081542/http://www.tangentonline.com/print--other-reviewsmenu-263/anthologies-reviewsmenu-107/1528-engineering-infinity-edited-by-jonathan-strahan . April 13, 2017 . dead .
  29. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross . Publishers Weekly . 2013 . January 5, 2015.
  30. Web site: 2002 Hugo Awards . The Hugo Awards . 2 September 2002 . 5 February 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090815001743/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2002-hugo-awards/ . 15 August 2009 .
  31. Web site: 2010 Hugo Award Winners . 5 September 2010 . The Hugo Awards . 5 February 2012.

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