Ancestors

Toot

Written by Charlie Stross on 2025-01-23 at 22:57

Writers’ Coffee Club for 24th January 2025

24. How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can you link to it?

The Laundry Files (last book heading for production) will, when finished, run to > 1.7 million words. Took 25 years to publish .…

https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=stross+laundry+files&qid=

The Merchant Princes series (now complete) runs to just under 1M words:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/buy-my-books/buy-my-books-uk.html#mp_series

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Descendants

Written by JWarner on 2025-01-23 at 23:00

@cstross ... And we are still concerned about some of your prophecies coming true on our watch. We talked about this!!

:-)

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Written by Mighty Orbot on 2025-01-24 at 02:28

@cstross Any chance of a Humble Bundle containing the old Laundry Files stories?

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Written by Charlie Stross on 2025-01-24 at 09:22

@mighty_orbot None whatsoever. They're all in print and selling well and the publishers of the earlier books require DRM on everything, which Does Not Work with humble bundle AIUI. (I'll check again in a couple of years.)

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Written by Dr David Mills on 2025-01-24 at 09:49

@cstross Which series did you enjoy writing more?

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Written by Charlie Stross on 2025-01-24 at 10:00

@Dtl Any project lasting > 20 years involves numerous patches of burn-out during which writing it feels like eating yesterday's stone cold vomit with a runcible spoon. Overall though I wrote the Laundry Files more for love and the Merchant Princes more for money.

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Written by Dr David Mills on 2025-01-24 at 10:07

@cstross Putting my own biases on it as a reader, but it does read like you had more fun with the the Laundry.

Please don't kill Mo, she's been though too much already.

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