Stephen Granade
@granades.com
Science presenter, robotics researcher, fiction writer, interactive fiction person, award-winning Virgo. Co-editor of @smallwondersmag.com SFF magazine.
website: https://stephen.granades.com
website: https://stephen.granades.com
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"Tuesday", my most recent short story, is available for free, and I'd be eternally grateful if you read it and considered it for any awards you're able to nominate stories for: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
December 31, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"Tuesday", my most recent short story, is available for free, and I'd be eternally grateful if you read it and considered it for any awards you're able to nominate stories for: smallwondersmag.com/piece/tuesday/
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Do you like hard SF and mommy issues? Were you forced to memorize 靜夜思 in Chinese school? I have the novellete for you!
1. I know I publish a lot of pretty dark, bleak stuff, but I like my bleakness with a ray of hope. See "The Earthlight Bright Before Her" by @chubertwrites.bsky.social in www.fusionfragment.com/issue-24/
Issue #24
“All the Pretty Starships Fly Like This” by J.R. Dewitt: freedom from imperial control / mindships / hot fudge cherry berry”As Big As A Whale” by Avra Margariti: obsession /…
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December 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Do you like hard SF and mommy issues? Were you forced to memorize 靜夜思 in Chinese school? I have the novellete for you!
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I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
The alchemy in 2026
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I love doing my yearly recap where I look back over the year! Here’s to ushering out 2025 well and turning my face to 2026.
ah yes, the game most famously known as the prequel to Riven
December 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ah yes, the game most famously known as the prequel to Riven
new wise men dropped for epiphany
December 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
new wise men dropped for epiphany
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December 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Chat, help me bully @misty.granades.com into naming her hand-me-down Mac laptop “Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way”.
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Chat, help me bully @misty.granades.com into naming her hand-me-down Mac laptop “Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way”.
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and I'm so proud of my one published piece this year. trying not to feel like I'm failing for not having the most published short stories in a year. writing is a marathon, not a sprint, etc etc 💜
🌆 read "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter": www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...
🌆 read "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter": www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...
To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter - Lightspeed Magazine
Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
and I'm so proud of my one published piece this year. trying not to feel like I'm failing for not having the most published short stories in a year. writing is a marathon, not a sprint, etc etc 💜
🌆 read "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter": www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...
🌆 read "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter": www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...
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For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Boxing Day, can we offer you a cover for Issue 31? Subscribe to get it on New Year’s Day! smallwonders.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy...
My youngest kid got me Animal Well for Christmas and since it’s digital only, they made a card to go with it, and I think the card is lowkey possessed by a kangaroo.
December 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My youngest kid got me Animal Well for Christmas and since it’s digital only, they made a card to go with it, and I think the card is lowkey possessed by a kangaroo.
Merry Christmas, everyone, we've reached peak AI.
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Merry Christmas, everyone, we've reached peak AI.
There’s still time for three ghosts to visit our billionaires and totally wreck them.
I loved the “Die Hard” years but I think we are a family who watches “The Muppets’ Christmas Carol” now.
a group of muppets are sitting around a table with a candle and a man standing in front of them .
Alt: A group of muppets are sitting around a table with a candle and a man standing in front of them. The text says “God bless us, everyone.”
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December 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
There’s still time for three ghosts to visit our billionaires and totally wreck them.
Sometimes the dads (and families) are alright.
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Sometimes the dads (and families) are alright.
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Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
Chat, should I buy this 1991 fantasy novel by Piers Anthony for $1 y/n
December 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Chat, should I buy this 1991 fantasy novel by Piers Anthony for $1 y/n
*me, having been swamped with work all day and about to open Bluesky*: gosh, I wonder how the SFF community’s doing, I bet it’s been a calm Friday
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
*me, having been swamped with work all day and about to open Bluesky*: gosh, I wonder how the SFF community’s doing, I bet it’s been a calm Friday
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For "Entries From My Grandmother's Diary Pertaining to My Father's Early Inflammation," our final December story, @marcc.bsky.social collaborated with his grandmother, Hazel Criley, for this striking story about a child's pyrokinesis in the 1930s.
Entries From My Grandmother’s Diary Pertaining To My Father’s Early Inflammation - Small Wonders
July 30, 1938: Robbie Jr has fever again. Robert will take to Dr tomorrow.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For "Entries From My Grandmother's Diary Pertaining to My Father's Early Inflammation," our final December story, @marcc.bsky.social collaborated with his grandmother, Hazel Criley, for this striking story about a child's pyrokinesis in the 1930s.
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It's been a hard year for a lot of us. @jyzh.bsky.social's poem, "From Dust", reminds us that we can carry on; we can make it whole again.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's been a hard year for a lot of us. @jyzh.bsky.social's poem, "From Dust", reminds us that we can carry on; we can make it whole again.
smallwondersmag.com/...
smallwondersmag.com/...
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Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.
I know this because they tried to recruit me and I strongly considered it but they’re also a “do an unpaid writing test where you have to also make it playable” company so that’s not something I vibe with
December 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.
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Listen, I know we sometimes publish stories that go hard, but this one really goes hard. One for all the monsterfuckers out there.
"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Listen, I know we sometimes publish stories that go hard, but this one really goes hard. One for all the monsterfuckers out there.
Listen, I know we sometimes publish stories that go hard, but this one really goes hard. One for all the monsterfuckers out there.
"Tuesday" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a heartwarming tale of love between alien and human. Sort of.
smallwondersmag.com/...
smallwondersmag.com/...
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Listen, I know we sometimes publish stories that go hard, but this one really goes hard. One for all the monsterfuckers out there.
This cover has lived in my head since I got the book as a kid.
THE MULE (1985)
Acrylic on Canvas 32” x 20”
For book two of the Foundation series, there was once again a clear choice for the central subject. 1/4
Acrylic on Canvas 32” x 20”
For book two of the Foundation series, there was once again a clear choice for the central subject. 1/4
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This cover has lived in my head since I got the book as a kid.
Waiting for the Vox explainer for stucky; a hand-wringing article in The Atlantic about how stucky squeezes out wholesome gay stories; The Cut snarking about the previous two.
*me, watching Heated Rivalry on a prison security monitor* stucky has breached containment, i repeat, stucky has breached containment
December 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Waiting for the Vox explainer for stucky; a hand-wringing article in The Atlantic about how stucky squeezes out wholesome gay stories; The Cut snarking about the previous two.
*me, watching Heated Rivalry on a prison security monitor* stucky has breached containment, i repeat, stucky has breached containment
December 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
*me, watching Heated Rivalry on a prison security monitor* stucky has breached containment, i repeat, stucky has breached containment