"Charles Stross - Message in a Time Capsule" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stross Charles)

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About the Author




Born in Leeds, England, Charles Stross knew he wanted to be a science fiction writer from the age of
six, and astonishingly, nobody ever considered therapy until it was too late. He didn't really get started
until his early teens (when his sister loaned him a manual typewriter around the time he was getting heavily
into Dungeons and Dragons); the results were unexpected, and he's been trying to bury them ever since.
He made his first commercial for-money sale to Interzone in 1986, and sold about a dozen stories
elsewhere throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s before a dip in his writing career. He began writing
fiction in earnest again in 1998.

Along the way to his current occupation, he went to university in London and qualified as a Pharmacist.
He figured out it was a bad idea the second time the local police staked his shop out for an armed
robbery -- he's a slow learner. Sick at heart from drugging people and dodging SWAT teams and
gangsters, he went back to university in Bradford and did a postgraduate degree in computer science.
After several tech sector jobs in the hinterlands around London, initially in graphics supercomputing and
then in the UNIX industry, he emigrated to Edinburgh, Scotland, and switched track into web
consultancy and a subsequent dot com death march.

All good things come to an end, and Stross made the critical career error of trying to change jobs early in
2000, just in time for the bottom to drop out of the first dot-com boom. However, he had a parachute:
he was writing a monthly Linux column for Computer Shopper, and by a hop, a skip and a jump that
would be denounced as implausible by any self-respecting editor, he managed to turn this unemployment
into an exciting full time career opportunity as a freelance journalist specialising in Linux and free
software. (The adjective "exciting" applies as much to the freelance journalist's relationship with their
bank manager as to their career structure.) Even more implausibly, after fifteen years of abject obscurity,
his fiction became an overnight success in the US, with five novel sales and several Hugo nominations in
the space of two years.

He now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books, and
an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers.

This story originally appeared in the Continuum 2006 program book in Australia.