Where to buy "Accelerando"
"Accelerando" is published by Ace (an imprint of Penguin-Putnam) in the USA, and by Orbit (an imprint of Time-Warner Books) in the UK. Additional non-English translations are pending.
Currently, "Accelerando" is only available as a hardcover. The Ace edition has been printed, is on its way to the shops right now, and is officially on sale from July 1st, 2005. The Orbit edition is in the pipeline and will be officially on sale from August 4th, 2005. In addition, the Science Fiction Book Club will be printing their own edition in August 2005.
You can order the US hardcover via Amazon.com, and the British edition via Amazon.co.uk.
I don't get over to the US very often. For readers who want a signed copy, I'm currently talking to a local specialist SF bookshop who may be able to take credit card orders via email and ship internationally. More on this as/when we've got a system in place.
If you're a bookseller and want a listing here, contact me.
This is a copyright notice
I'd prefer not to have to say all this, but my publishers will probably yell at me if I don't, so here goes:
If you've ever bought a house, you've probably seen a deed of sale for a chunk of real estate. Page after page of inscrutible legalese, complete with crossings-through and footnotes and sidenotes and whatever. When you sign your name in blood on the bottom of the last page against the signature of the vendor, it is generally taken as meaning that you "own" the house, but if you get into the small print it's a lot more complicated than that.
Ownership of a novel is like ownership of a house. I wrote "Accelerando" and I "own" the copyright on it, but I'm like a landlord who owns a plot of land, then sells the right to build on it and live in the building to someone else. Worse still: to several different folks on different continents at the same time. The "tenants" are publishers, who take the unformed land (the book) and turn it into something people enjoy using. And they like to sublet the property for money to other tenants -- the reading public. They don't want squatters moving into the attic and setting up home without paying them -- or worse, claiming to have owned the land all along.
So, to explain the copyright situation of this website: everything except the novel is covered as follows:
Unless specifically noted to the contrary on individual pages, the textual content of this website is © Charles Stross, 2005. The images on this website are © their original creators. Unless specifically noted to the contrary on the individual pages, the text and layout of this website (but not the novel "Accelerando") is licensed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Got that? It's nice and simple and about as easy as it gets. You shouldn't reuse the book cover art without getting permission from the publishers (Ace in the US, Orbit in the UK), but I don't much care what you do with the rest of the website as long as you credit me as the original author. Exceptions may apply to individual files, as noted on the pages concerned.
The big exception is the novel "Accelerando", which is covered separately.
"Accelerando" is © Charles Stross, 2005. The downloadable version on this website is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license .
What this means in a nutshell is: you can download it. You can read it, and give a copy (under exactly the same terms) to your friends. You must not sell it, modify it (other than converting to a different file format for storage or reading) or file off the serial numbers and pretend you wrote it. You must specifically not create derivative works such as movies or TV adaptations or role-playing games or translations into other languages, without obtaining a separate commercial license. If you do any of these things, I and/or my agent and publishers will come after you with lawyers, guns, and money -- but mostly lawyers.
If you do want to obtain media, translation, or other subsidiary rights -- whether commercial or non-commercial -- you should contact me; I'll say one of "yes", "no", or "talk to my agent".