Ever since the subject of Wild Wild West came up again, I’ve been thinking critically about the dichotomy between science fiction and the...

  Obviously, we didn’t make our January 15th target for releasing Stupefying Stories #24 .  To say 2021 was challenging is an epic understat...

  The Department of Useless Prescience checks in, reinforcing the idea that I am trapped inside a time loop. As I was writing this morning’...

In another of my recent web chats, I was asked once again to recount the saga of how “Cyberpunk” went from being a new story, fresh and youn...

  In one of my recent web conferences I was asked, “What one piece of advice would you give to new writers?” That one caught me a bit flat-f...

In the process of learning how to run a small-press publishing company and produce a decently professional-looking product, it seems I’ve lo...

  Truth be told, I don’t miss SF/F cons. I used to attend quite a few of them, not because I enjoyed the experience so much as because I fel...

  [DRAFT] Hello, I’m Bruce Bethke, editor of Stupefying Stories magazine and executive cat-herder-in-chief here at Rampant Loon Press. You h...

Part 3 • “Where we’re going,” by Bruce Bethke • This goes somewhere, but you have to read the entire thing. Trust me. I’ve been trying...

Part 2 • “Where we are,” by Bruce Bethke • Funny how writing something out in detail and then letting it sit for a day before re-readi...

Part 1 • “How we got here,” by Bruce Bethke • ...and here we are, in the second week of April already. It’s 20-something degrees outsi...

  Op-ed • “Notes Towards a Manifesto,” by Bruce Bethke • It seems I need a manifesto. I’m not entirely sure why. I’ve gotten along ...

Op-ed • “2018: Where We Stand,” by Bruce Bethke • We began with a Kindle. That sounds much better than, “We began with a series of exp...

When we launched the e-book version of Stupefying Stories , we included a “three years and out” self-destruct clause in the contract...