Charles Stross

Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his prolific output, post-cyberpunk SF, and the Laundry Files series of comedic supernatural spy novels. He won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for The Apocalypse Codex (2013), the fourth Laundry Files novel. He has also won multiple Hugo Awards. Born in Leeds, England in 1964, Stross studied pharmacy and computer science before working as a software engineer and technical writer. He became a full-time writer in 2004. The Laundry Files series—featuring a British civil servant who works for the secret organization that deals with Lovecraftian threats—combines espionage thriller conventions with cosmic horror and computer science. Stross is also known for his Merchant Princes series and the hard SF Singularity Sky/Iron Sunrise duology. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.