Rampant Loon Press is excited to announce the release of Stupefying Stories 1.17, featuring the cover story, THE RANSOM OF PRINCESS STARSHINE, by Philip K. Dick Award finalist and Campbell Award-winning author AMY ...
It’s coming right at you! Rampant Loon Press is relieved excited to announce the release of Stupefying Stories 1.16, featuring: I LIVE THE WARRIOR’S LIFE • by Robert Lowell Russell No one knew how Mel summoned Brother Crow to this world, but the trickster was delighted...
Quite a few people have written lately to ask, “What the [heck] is going on with Stupefying Stories and Rampant Loon Press?” I’ll get to that in a moment, but first, if your question is actually...
Unwillingly drawn out of her annual drunken stupor, Captain Nancy Martin, Retired, finds herself involuntarily reactivated. Her assignment—to help Special Agent Erica Hampton solve the disappearance of an entire school’s student body. Hampton’s superiors suspect a slaver ring has kidnapped the children, to sell them on a rim world beyond the Terran Federation’s borders...
Continued from: Part One | Part Two By the Fall of 2014, we seemed to have our ducks in a decent approximation of a row. True, my eyes were watering from studying and comparing perhaps a hundred or more WordPress themes, but in the end, we’d settled on a design...
Continued from Part 1 With SHOWCASE #11, we cut over to the “Crevasse” site design. It seemed like a great idea at the time. The original SHOWCASE site was, to be blunt, old, and very much a product of old-school browser-based desktop-oriented thinking. As outlined in “Show Your Work”, by late 2013 I’d concluded...
Wow. September already. First off, I want to give a shout-out to eagle-eyed proofreader Chris Pearce. No sooner did “Death Comes to Agratha” go live than she sent me an email pointing out a typo in “The Mission,” the story to which there is a link in the author’s bio. To correct this...
Just a quick reminder: STUPEFYING STORIES and STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE are not open to unsolicited submissions at this time. We appreciate the trust authors have placed in us to get their stories published and remain committed to publishing the stories we’ve already accepted before beginning to consider new submissions...
Matt Connaught wants nothing more than to enjoy life with his new wife, Michelle, and to catch up on lost time with his parents, who were held captive for seven years. As a member of one of the wealthiest families in the Terran Federation, this should be easy. It’s not...
Stupefying Stories emerges from long-term cryosleep with a great new lineup of science fiction, fantasy, political comedy and horror! (There is a difference between those last two. Trust us.) Featuring: • MAKING MONSTERS, by Sarah Read • AT WORK IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Edoardo Albert...
Just released on Amazon, Audible.com, and in the Apple iTunes store! THE COUNTERFEIT CAPTAIN by Henry Vogel (Unabridged audio book edition) Narrated by Heidi Cox, best known for her work both in front of and behind the camera in the hit web series, Stalking LeVar, The Counterfeit Captain is nearly six hours...
Captain Nancy Martin expects a lonely death. Passing out as her battle-damaged starfighter bleeds the last of its air, she comes to in the cavernous and deserted docking bay of an unknown starship. Leaving her crippled fighter to seek help, she finds she’s been been scooped up by a gigantic generation ship inhabited by...
“My parents are not dead!” Everyone thinks I’m in denial, and have been ever since my parents vanished seven years ago. Everyone thinks I should just shut up, and accept the vast inheritance coming my way. Everyone thinks I should let it go, and get on with my life. Everyone is wrong...
From the creators of Stupefying Stories comes our new sister publication, THEIAN JOURNAL. It’s a bit unearthly—a bit alternative—these are decidedly different from our usual selection of SF/F stories...
“My God, they’re everywhere!” From the creators of Stupefying Stories comes an exciting new anthology series: PUTREFYING STORIES! Sixty-four pages of pulse-pounding, shuffling, moaning, brain-munching zombie action! Issue #1 features...
“…the best of the trilogy. KUDOS!” Years ago, Terran Scout David Rice crash-landed on the lost colony world of Aashla, where he rescued and fell in love with the beautiful Princess Callan. Pledging his life and sword to Callan and his adopted home world, David thought he’d never see another Terran again—until the night...
The box of copies of STUPEFYING STORIES 1.14 has at last arrived! (Memo to self: specify expedited shipping next time). It’s our first print edition in five years, and my God, the thing actually looks like a real book!...
Winter is almost over, and that means it’s time for STUPEFYING STORIES to emerge from hibernation with a terrific new lineup of stories! Featuring: 50 FOOT ROMANCE, by Eric J. Juneau CITY OF OPPORTUNITY, by Jānis Zelčāns THE ALIENS WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, by Peter Wood THIRTY NINE, by Shedrick Pittman-Hassett RIGEL’S MISSING TAIL, by [&hellip...
DOCTOR DEAD: A Percy & Quincey Adventure by Tyler Tork San Francisco, 1904: Thirteen-year-old Percival Drew expected to spend the summer doing little more than tinkering with those new-fangled gasoline-powered motorcars. But that was before an insane scientist took an unhealthy interest in his cousin Quincey’s very rare blood type...
Rampant Loon Press is proud to announce: SCOUT’S OATH: A Planetary Romance, by Henry Vogel Book 2 in the Scout’s Honor Trilogy ISBN: 978-1-938834-43-1 (ebook) ISBN: 978-1-938834-44-8 (print edition,...
To kick off 2015, we’re announcing some important changes in how we’re handling submissions. STUPEFYING STORIES The complicated reading period schedule we tried to use in 2014 didn’t work. In order to clear time in our schedule to concentrate on book production, STUPEFYING STORIES magazine and the STUPEFYING STORIES PRESENTS anthology series...
From the creator of the acclaimed Campbellian Anthology series comes STRAEON: a new quarterly exploration of stories that are longer, more complex, more mature, and more challenging than the norm. If you’re looking for space unicorns, sexy vampires, or short comedies that end in bad puns, you won’t find that here. But...
One of my pet peeves is the traditional publishing industry “All Rights for the Remaining Balance of Eternity” contract, so when we launched the e-book version of Stupefying Stories, I included a “three years and out” self-destruct clause in the contract. To my surprise we’re still here three years later...
Yes, it’s our original print edition, done as a prototype to see just how closely we could emulate the look and feel of a vintage digest-sized pulp in what was initially planned to be a quarterly magazine. We spent a small fortune on this one, and aside from my never being really happy with...
