There is a time-honored rule in publishing: “No matter how many times it’s been proofread by no matter how many people, there is always one more stupid and embarrassing typo that will slap you right in the face the moment you open the finished and printed book.”
STUPEFYING STORIES 23 is no exception to that rule. Dammit.
Fortunately we no longer need to wait until the next print run to fix such things; we can do so fairly easily and quickly. Rather than try to keep quiet about our mistakes, then, we’ve decided to make this an audience-participation feature. If you find a typo in one of our books, please post it in the comments here, along with sufficient information to help us find it and fix it in the next upload.
We will be watching who makes the most and best comments. The winner(s) will receive free ARC copies of our next book, so that they can get a head start on proofreading that.
I’ll kick things off with the typo that smacked me in the face the moment I opened up SS#23.
“A few words from the editor...” paragraph 3, Still, it’s been so long since we released Stupefying Stories 22 that is seems like
D’oh!
—Bruce Bethke