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Born in Leeds, England, Charles Stross knew he wanted to be a science fiction writer from the age of six. Despite this, he went to university in London and qualified as a Pharmacist. He made his first writing sale to Interzone in 1986, and sold about a dozen stories elsewhere throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. He now writes fiction show more full-time, has sold about 16 novels, has won one Hugo award and been nominated nearly a dozen times, and has been translated into about a dozen languages. He is the author of the Merchant Princes series. His latest book, The Revolution Business, is the fifth in this series. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Pimpf
- Original publication date
- 2006
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- Robert "Bob" Oliver Francis Howard; Emma MacDougal; Peter-Fred "Pete" Young; Andy Newstrom; James Jesus Angleton; "Pinky' (show all 9); "Brains"; "Slug" Johnson; Lucy
- Important places
- Capital Laundry Services, London, England, UK (fictional); Wayfarer's Tavern, North Market, North Gate, Stormville, Bosch (fictional); Castle Storm, Bosch (fictional)
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- It's a rainy Monday morning and I'm layer in to work as at the Laundry because of a technical fault on the Tube.
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- The Ops wing is a maze of twisty little passage ways, all alike.
I'm in loco parents, or maybe just plain loco. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And it's time to get Pete the hell of this game and back into his own head, before his mother or some even worse horror, comes looking for him.
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