Time is a corrosive fluid, ...

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
 Charles Stross

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Biggest influence: my mother.
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I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.
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Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
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My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.
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