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Charles Stross: award-winning science fiction books

Charles Stross has 13 science fiction books recognized by the Hugo, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, including 5 winners.

Award wins

Accelerando by Charles Stross, book cover

Accelerando

by Charles Stross

Novel · 2005

Locus winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognition

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will.

Missile Gap by Charles Stross, book cover

Missile Gap

by Charles Stross

Novella · 2006

Locus winner

"Missile Gap" is a 2006 English language science fiction novella, originally published in the anthology One Million A.D. by British author Charles Stross. It won the Locus Award for best novella of 2006. The novella was republished in Stross's short-story collection Wireless in 2009.

Palimpsest by Charles Stross, book cover

Palimpsest

by Charles Stross

Novella · 2009

Hugo winnerLocus recognition

Palimpsest is a 2009 science fiction novella by Charles Stross, exploring the conjunction of time travel and deep time. Originally published in Stross's 2009 collection Wireless, it won the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Subterranean Press announced they would reprint the novella separately in 2011.

Singularity Sky by Charles Stross, book cover

Singularity Sky

by Charles Stross

Novel · 2003

Hugo recognition

Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by British writer Charles Stross, published in 2003. A sequel, Iron Sunrise, was published that same year. Together the two are referred to as the Eschaton novels, after a near-godlike intelligence that exists in both.

Elector by Charles Stross, book cover

Elector

by Charles Stross

Novella · 2004

Hugo recognition

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Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross, book cover

Iron Sunrise

by Charles Stross

Novel · 2004 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover

Hugo recognitionLocus recognition

Iron Sunrise is a 2004 hard science fiction novel by British writer Charles Stross, which follows the events in Singularity Sky. The book was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 2005.

Halting State by Charles Stross, book cover

Halting State

by Charles Stross

Novel · 2007

Hugo recognitionLocus recognition

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are

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