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Stupefying Stories The Facebook aspect of Stupefying Stories magazine, StupefyingStoriesShowcase.com webzine, and Rampa That, in a nutshell, is the STUPEFYING STORIES mission.

STUPEFYING STORIES™ and Rampant Loon Press™ are trademarks of Rampant Loon Media LLC. STUPEFYING STORIES is the banner under which Rampant Loon Press (the imprint) publishes—

• STUPEFYING STORIES: our monthly (well, we’re working on that) general-interest science fiction and fantasy magazine.

• STUPEFYING STORIES PRESENTS: our line of one-off and experimental theme anthologies.

• SHOWCASE: our

free companion webzine, which you can read right now at
StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com

In a larger sense, though, all STUPEFYING STORIES titles are experimental. STUPEFYING STORIES was created to test the proposition that there are readers out there who want fun, exciting, and above all, *entertaining* new science fiction and fantasy stories, and that by using modern digital publishing technologies, it is possible for us to reach these readers, with new stories by new authors, in ways that make some kind of economic sense. To bring you entertaining stories, by new authors, for about the price of a cup of coffee. If you find this idea appealing, please join the conversation here, check out our website at http://www.stupefyingstories.com, and look for our products wherever e-books are sold. If you want to *be* one of the authors we publish, you'll find everything you need to know about submitting to us on this web page:

http://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines_23.html

Thanks! Bruce Bethke
Publisher, Editor, and Executive Cat-Herder in Chief

Today on Stupefying Stories: it's back-to-school time, with.... oh no. With *him*.
01/09/2025

Today on Stupefying Stories: it's back-to-school time, with.... oh no. With *him*.

While Wilma took her seat and the other students clapped, the teacher let out a low, quiet sigh, seeing that Timothy was next to give his pr...

Today on Stupefying Stories: a little reminder that autumn is just around the corner.
25/08/2025

Today on Stupefying Stories: a little reminder that autumn is just around the corner.

The little cybernetic gadfly popped up as soon as I logged in. “ Dave Miller ,” it dutifully nagged, “ you are now 15 minutes overdue fo...

Success Story  #1: Karl K. Gallagher explains what he had to do in order to make money self-publishing fiction.
13/08/2025

Success Story #1: Karl K. Gallagher explains what he had to do in order to make money self-publishing fiction.

I started writing my first novel in 2013. After some work by a wonderful editor, I sent it off to a publisher I liked and set to work on th...

I've been having problems with cross-posting lately, so you've probably missed this. If you've self-published, small-pre...
13/08/2025

I've been having problems with cross-posting lately, so you've probably missed this. If you've self-published, small-press-published, or hybrid-published a book lately, we'd love to share your success story. More details here.

Continued from: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Supplemental reading: How to Get Rich Quick Writing Big Hit Bestsellers! RFP: It’s engineer-speak...

Today on Stupefying Stories: if you're craving something *really* dark today, read this!
13/08/2025

Today on Stupefying Stories: if you're craving something *really* dark today, read this!

Glossary of Archaic Terms used in Monograph on Human Culture During the Period of Conquest (Kindle Edition) colonist (ˈkälənəst) The humans’...

Today:
11/07/2025

Today:

Following up on the 9 July Never-ending FAQ post … Q: Pete Wood asks: “How come there are no questions in the FAQ?” A: Because I’m really b...

Today:
09/07/2025

Today:

Questions have been piling up while I’ve been busy with Otogu, so this is going to be a combination FAQ and status update. Quick, Robin, to ...

Today: one of weirder things about being me is that people seem to think I want to be some sort of judge, arbiter, or el...
05/07/2025

Today: one of weirder things about being me is that people seem to think I want to be some sort of judge, arbiter, or elder spokesman for the cyberpunk genre. Here's what *I* think of that idea.

This being the Independence Day holiday weekend, we’re running The Best of Ask Dr. Cyberpunk today. This column was originally posted on Fe...

Today: going to Readercon 34? Allan Dyen-Shapiro Author will be there with print copies of his new book, fresh off the p...
03/07/2025

Today: going to Readercon 34? Allan Dyen-Shapiro Author will be there with print copies of his new book, fresh off the presses and ready to sign!

Also, we seem to be running a 4th of July Sale, entirely by accident…

Allan Dyen-Shapiro will be at Readercon 34 , July 17-20! Better yet, he’ll be there with print copies of The Day We Said Goodbye to the ...

Today:
01/07/2025

Today:

All good things must end someday, and this includes The Pete Wood Challenge. After a four-year run and more than 230 published stories, it’s...

Today: Pete Wood Challenge Week wraps-up, with the gold going to...
27/06/2025

Today: Pete Wood Challenge Week wraps-up, with the gold going to...

When someone is miserable for a long time, it leaves an aura, a trace that seeps into the walls. You feel it viewing property: some places ...

Today: Pete Wood Challenge Week continues, with the silver going to...
26/06/2025

Today: Pete Wood Challenge Week continues, with the silver going to...

Cam and Becca begin the interactive activity. Signs flicker above the first three-pronged fork they encounter. red // blue // WHITE U...

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Edited by award-winning SF author Bruce Bethke, STUPEFYING STORIES was created to test the proposition that there are readers out there looking for interesting, exciting, thought-provoking, and above all, *entertaining* new science fiction and fantasy stories, by writers they may not have read before, and that by using modern digital publishing technologies it might be possible for us to reach these readers, with a stream of new stories by new authors, in a way that makes some kind of economic sense.

That, in a nutshell, is the STUPEFYING STORIES mission. To bring you lots of entertaining new stories, by authors you may not have read before, for about the price of a cup of coffee.

Right now STUPEFYING STORIES is a “semi-pro” magazine, because of the low word rates we pay our authors, but the important point here is that no one on the staff is drawing a salary. We are plowing every penny we make back into making our magazine better and paying our authors and artists more. Our goal is to become a “pro-rates” magazine, and there’s only way we can do that: by selling more copies. If you find this idea appealing, please join the conversation here, check out our website at http://www.stupefyingstories.com, look for our products on Amazon.com, and above all: TELL YOUR FRIENDS! Thanks! Bruce Bethke Publisher, Editor, and Executive Cat-Herder in Chief