Charles Stross's (www.antipope.org/charlie/) first story appeared in the Fall 1986 issue of Interzone, but he first attracted wider attention with 2001 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominee "Antibodies" and novella "A Colder War." His major work to date is the "Accelerando" sequence of stories, published as the novel Accelerando, which detail the lives of three generations in a family making its way through a Vingean Singularity. Stross's first collection Toast: And Other Rusted Futures was published in 2002, and second novel and Hugo nominee Singularity Sky appeared in 2003. His short story "The Concrete Jungle" won the Hugo Award in 2005. Almost overwhelmingly prolific, Stross has published fourteen novels including most recently The Merchants' War and Halting State. Upcoming is a new science fiction novel, Saturn's Children.
Over the past several years, Stross has developed into one of the most interesting and entertaining science fiction writers working today. The very funny story that follows takes the humor of P. G. Wodehouse and deftly sets it in the social whirl of a far future Asteroid Belt community.