Stephen L. Thompson's Blog, page 41
March 11, 2015
Brain for Rent and other stories
���Brain for Rent and other stories��� is a collection of five, short scifi stories I put together to give a sampling of my writing. Included in the collection are: ���Brain for Rent��� about a ne���re-do-well failed writer with a conceptual implant who discusses his work with a young woman thinking of getting an implant herself. ���The Demonstration��� is about a different young woman wanting to show off her latest body modification. ���Self Imprisonment��� offers one solution of where to pu...
March 9, 2015
Brain for Rent and other stories
February 25, 2015
The Future is Coming
As a science fiction writer, I���ve spent a lot of time thinking about how technology will change the way we live. I came up with these ten short essays about science fictional elements that will ��� almost certainly ��� one day become science fact as a way for people to start coming to terms with them. Since I���ve spent time thinking about clones and AIs, I feel I���ll be okay when they do finally show up whereas most people will probably freak out. The point of these essays is to get peopl...
February 23, 2015
The Future is Coming
February 18, 2015
My QuarterReads stories
For those who don���t know, QuarterReads is a site where readers can buy short stories for only a quarter. What���s great for the authors of these stories is that $0.22 goes to the author. Usually, it seems like for other sites the pay ratio is the opposite of that. In addition, if you really enjoyed a story, you can tip the author $0.25, $0.50, or $1.00. If you are interested in reading great short stories ��� and helping out their authors ��� I highly recommend you checking out QuarterReads...
February 16, 2015
My QuarterReads stories
February 10, 2015
Political Pies
Everybody complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? My attempt to do something about it was to collect forty of my short stories with a political element into my Political Pies anthology. The stories are either politically neutral or equally condemning of the national parties. Instead of trying to sway you to one ideology or another, my goal is to just get people thinking about politics in the hopes a rose might grow out of all the political manure.
Here is an example of...
February 9, 2015
Political Pies
February 3, 2015
The All-You-Can-Read Buffet
The All-You-Can-Read Buffet is a collection of forty stories covering various genres and themes ranging from six to over 4,200 words in length. They also cover a wide time range. Some of these stories I began writing a decade ago, while others were written especially for this collection. All together, they are a buffet of my writing. As such, I encourage you to read as much as you want. Go back for seconds, thirds, fourths even. I won���t even mind if you skip over the stuff you don���t like,...
