Welcome to The Week in Review, our regularly scheduled Sunday wrap-up for those too busy to follow Stupefying Stories on a daily basis. It’s been a while since we last did one of these, so we probably should call it “The Month in Review,” but that would mess up the metadata tagging, so Week in Review it is. Before we get to the stories and articles, though, we have some important announcements.
Pete Wood Challenge #36
The current Pete Wood Challenge, “Pick Two,” is still open for submissions until Tuesday, December 10th. If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at writing flash fiction, this is a great way to start. As an author, Pete has written and sold—actually, I don’t know how many stories, but as an editor, he’s read and published hundreds of flash fiction stories. He knows his stuff.
For more information, mash this somewhat button-like image:
Twitter, Bluesky, and all that
When the Great Migration to Bluesky first began I wasn’t much interested, as we get so few new readers coming in from social media that it seemed an unproductive use of time. Then I was advised to get a Bluesky account simply to protect my name and keep some squatter from getting an account in my name and pretending to be me, which apparently is a thing these days. Therefore, I am now on Bluesky, @brucebethke.bsky.social.
The StupefyingSF
account remains on X/Twitter. I don’t expect my Bluesky account to be any more active than the StupefyingSF
account, but I’m out there, if you want to connect. Follow me, and I’ll follow you, and we’ll all go ‘round in circles and get nowhere.
I’m probably going to regret this, but…
I’ve resumed writing the “Ask Dr. Cyberpunk” columns, and added a dedicated email address just for cyberpunk-related correspondence. What is this email address? You’ll have to read the columns to find out.
And with that said, here’s what we’ve published lately.
Fiction: “Monkey See,” by Chana Kohl
One of the most powerful stories we’ve published this year. Read it.
Author Profile: Six Questions for… Gretchen Tessmer
We don’t publish poetry, but do publish poets.
Science Fact: Mining the Asteroids, Part 15, by Guy Stewart
Guy keeps trying to turn us into ANALOG.
Author Profile: Six Questions for… Carol Scheina
One of our favorite contributors checks in, to answer a few questions.
Fiction: “Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye,” by Carly Berg
What really happened on that terrible day in Dallas?
Fiction: “Stopping,” by Jake Stein
“Because I could not stop for Death—”
The Never-ending FAQ • 27 November 2024
Pete Wood Challenge updates, as much political commentary as
you’ll ever get from us, I think my new television is watching me
more than I’m watching it, and the question that triggered
The Return of Dr. Cyberpunk.
A brief inspirational message, smothered in Campbell’s
Cream of Something soup and topped with crispy onions.
Too late, you missed it.
They’re still good books, though.
Ask Dr. Cyberpunk: from initial concept to published story
I hope I don’t come to regret doing this.
A Reading for the First Sunday After Thanksgiving
Thou shalt clean thy fridge. It’s in the Bible.
Fiction: “Come the Waters High,” by Karl Dandenell
The High Priestess knew her island was doomed.
The question was, who and what could be saved?
The Never-ending FAQ • 4 December 2024
Mostly questions about the Pete Wood Challenge, with a link
to story that’s a great example of what we’re talking about.
Fiction: “The Hard R,” by Charles Dresden
Got hard-boiled tech noir, if you want it!
Ask Dr. Cyberpunk: from famous short story to failed novel
Here’s what really happened. Learn from my mistakes.
1 comments:
Just working to keep the "Old-Fashioned Science in Fiction"! Other than that, I do occasionally write the weird science or even entirely NON-science story...
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