The Never-ending FAQ • our plans for 2024

 Apparently I was less than clear in yesterday’s status update post. Stupefying Stories is *not* ceasing publication. Rather, we’re taking a step back and a little time off, to reevaluate our business model and change the way we go to market. I still love genre fiction. I’m still proud of (most of) what we’ve published. I still like (most of) the people I’ve come to know...

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The Never-ending FAQ • assessing 2023

  We always knew that November 2023 was going to be a difficult month. The last three years of Karen’s life were challenging. The last three months, horrific. The last three weeks, heartbreaking. The last three days… I don’t have the words. This coming Saturday it will have been one year to the day. Somehow I will get through it, but I don’t know how, just yet....

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Creating Alien Aliens: Does How Aliens SENSE Their World REALLY Make Them Alien: A Thought Experiment With SOUND…

Five decades ago, I started my college career with the intent of becoming a marine biologist. I found out I had to get a BS in biology before I could even begin work on MARINE biology; especially because there WEREN'T any marine biology programs in Minnesota.Along the way, the science fiction stories I'd been writing since I was 13 began to grow more believable. With my BS...

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Armistice Day 2023

One hundred and five years ago today, the guns on the Western Front fell silent, and the “war to end all wars” came to an official close.That wasn’t exactly what really happened, of course. On the Eastern Front, the Great War segued into the Russian Revolution, followed by the Polish-Soviet War, and then the Russian Civil War. On the Greco-Turkish front the fighting continued...

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The Never-ending FAQ • tearing up our Q4 2023 schedule

This was always going to be a difficult month. The events of a year ago are still very much with me, very much on my mind, I’d just made a choice to stop talking about them in public. If you’ve been following Stupefying Stories for a while you know what I’m talking about. If you’re a newcomer, you’ll find the gist of the story here and the conclusion here. I’d unpublished...

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