Damian Stockli
@damianstockli.bsky.social
Doctoral student/sci fi author writing love and loss, technocracy and tragedy, capitalism and catharsis.
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
@vauhinivara.bsky.social captures something I’ve been thinking about a lot.
Large language model chatbots seem dystopic because of their vague but strangely intimate voice, an authorless everyman, no one and everyone all at once. Designed to be your best friend, collaborator, mirror.
Large language model chatbots seem dystopic because of their vague but strangely intimate voice, an authorless everyman, no one and everyone all at once. Designed to be your best friend, collaborator, mirror.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
@vauhinivara.bsky.social captures something I’ve been thinking about a lot.
Large language model chatbots seem dystopic because of their vague but strangely intimate voice, an authorless everyman, no one and everyone all at once. Designed to be your best friend, collaborator, mirror.
Large language model chatbots seem dystopic because of their vague but strangely intimate voice, an authorless everyman, no one and everyone all at once. Designed to be your best friend, collaborator, mirror.
October Reads and Recs 🎃🍂
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Theories of Social Remembering by Barbara Misztal
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
#OctoberReads #bookrecs #author
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Theories of Social Remembering by Barbara Misztal
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
#OctoberReads #bookrecs #author
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
October Reads and Recs 🎃🍂
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Theories of Social Remembering by Barbara Misztal
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
#OctoberReads #bookrecs #author
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Theories of Social Remembering by Barbara Misztal
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
#OctoberReads #bookrecs #author
The time has come for me to join the world of short form content. I'll be posting on books and ideas that have left an impression on me, my life as an author and doctoral student, and work on my first novel!
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The time has come for me to join the world of short form content. I'll be posting on books and ideas that have left an impression on me, my life as an author and doctoral student, and work on my first novel!
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THE MEME IS REAL
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
THE MEME IS REAL
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Stories that were the Best of the Their Year
Every year, we chose about 25% of the stories we published as the Best of Metaphorosis. These were the stories that made the cut each year. Most years are available as print or e-book anthologies as well. Best of 2016 “The Demon in the Page” — Joshua…
Every year, we chose about 25% of the stories we published as the Best of Metaphorosis. These were the stories that made the cut each year. Most years are available as print or e-book anthologies as well. Best of 2016 “The Demon in the Page” — Joshua…
Stories that were the Best of the Their Year
Every year, we chose about 25% of the stories we published as the Best of Metaphorosis. These were the stories that made the cut each year. Most years are available as print or e-book anthologies as well. Best of 2016 “The Demon in the Page” — Joshua Phillip Johnson “Heard” — Elise Forier Edie “
magazine.metaphorosis.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Stories that were the Best of the Their Year
Every year, we chose about 25% of the stories we published as the Best of Metaphorosis. These were the stories that made the cut each year. Most years are available as print or e-book anthologies as well. Best of 2016 “The Demon in the Page” — Joshua…
Every year, we chose about 25% of the stories we published as the Best of Metaphorosis. These were the stories that made the cut each year. Most years are available as print or e-book anthologies as well. Best of 2016 “The Demon in the Page” — Joshua…
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A PhD-level expert isn’t someone who can answer any question off the top of their head. A PhD-level expert is someone who will stare at some piece of information, say, “that doesn’t seem right,” and then spend enormous amounts of time obsessively hunting down every piece of information they can…
August 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
A PhD-level expert isn’t someone who can answer any question off the top of their head. A PhD-level expert is someone who will stare at some piece of information, say, “that doesn’t seem right,” and then spend enormous amounts of time obsessively hunting down every piece of information they can…
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Feeling rejected? Send your story to us for TRUNK: stories that took the long way.
This anthology of SFF stories with 20+ rejections (10+ for novelettes) is open for submissions now.
books.metaphorosis.com/calls/
This anthology of SFF stories with 20+ rejections (10+ for novelettes) is open for submissions now.
books.metaphorosis.com/calls/
Calls
Open/Upcoming TRUNK: stories that took the long way Concept: Stories that met with many rejections before being published. This can include both reprint or original stories. In either case, …
books.metaphorosis.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Feeling rejected? Send your story to us for TRUNK: stories that took the long way.
This anthology of SFF stories with 20+ rejections (10+ for novelettes) is open for submissions now.
books.metaphorosis.com/calls/
This anthology of SFF stories with 20+ rejections (10+ for novelettes) is open for submissions now.
books.metaphorosis.com/calls/
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Stories by Debut Science Fiction Authors
Many of our authors were new to publishing - so many that we split them into two volumes by genre. The science fiction debuts we published as Ignition!, the sixth in our Library Collection set. Below are those stories and more. Included in Library…
Many of our authors were new to publishing - so many that we split them into two volumes by genre. The science fiction debuts we published as Ignition!, the sixth in our Library Collection set. Below are those stories and more. Included in Library…
Stories by Debut Science Fiction Authors
Many of our authors were new to publishing - so many that we split them into two volumes by genre. The science fiction debuts we published as Ignition!, the sixth in our Library Collection set. Below are those stories and more. Included in Library Collection #6 “How to Survive a Fish Attack” — Kato Thompson “Angels at the Border…
magazine.metaphorosis.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Stories by Debut Science Fiction Authors
Many of our authors were new to publishing - so many that we split them into two volumes by genre. The science fiction debuts we published as Ignition!, the sixth in our Library Collection set. Below are those stories and more. Included in Library…
Many of our authors were new to publishing - so many that we split them into two volumes by genre. The science fiction debuts we published as Ignition!, the sixth in our Library Collection set. Below are those stories and more. Included in Library…
My short story debut, "She Was the Universe," is in this collection, along with many other great Metaphorosis stories by educators!
Stories by Educators
Perhaps it's no surprise that SFF draws authors who explain complex ideas for a living. In any case, a goodly number of our authors are also educators. We published a set of their stories in The Speculative Teachers' Lounge, the fourth in our Library Collection set. Below are…
Perhaps it's no surprise that SFF draws authors who explain complex ideas for a living. In any case, a goodly number of our authors are also educators. We published a set of their stories in The Speculative Teachers' Lounge, the fourth in our Library Collection set. Below are…
Stories by Educators
Perhaps it's no surprise that SFF draws authors who explain complex ideas for a living. In any case, a goodly number of our authors are also educators. We published a set of their stories in The Speculative Teachers' Lounge, the fourth in our Library Collection set. Below are most of those stories and more. Included in Library Collection #4…
magazine.metaphorosis.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My short story debut, "She Was the Universe," is in this collection, along with many other great Metaphorosis stories by educators!
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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
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Time to be blunt. With the disintegration of trad social media, AI BS, & the constant stream of distracting bad news, it is harder than ever to get readers for SFF magazines. If what we do is important to you, please boost our posts wherever you see them. ❤️🦄
Space Unicorns! There are many ways to support Uncanny Magazine! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Pledges to Kickstarter! SPREADING THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!!! https://buff.ly/3BIbIeL
January 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Time to be blunt. With the disintegration of trad social media, AI BS, & the constant stream of distracting bad news, it is harder than ever to get readers for SFF magazines. If what we do is important to you, please boost our posts wherever you see them. ❤️🦄
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Enter the curator
Nine years ago, on 1 January 2016, Metaphorosis published its first* story, "The Demon in the Page" by Joshua Philip Johnson. About a month ago, we published our last, "This is My City and I am Her Song" by Suzanne J. Willis. Each is an example of the style and lyricism we strove…
Nine years ago, on 1 January 2016, Metaphorosis published its first* story, "The Demon in the Page" by Joshua Philip Johnson. About a month ago, we published our last, "This is My City and I am Her Song" by Suzanne J. Willis. Each is an example of the style and lyricism we strove…
Enter the curator
Nine years ago, on 1 January 2016, Metaphorosis published its first* story, "The Demon in the Page" by Joshua Philip Johnson. About a month ago, we published our last, "This is My City and I am Her Song" by Suzanne J. Willis. Each is an example of the style and lyricism we strove for across the nine years between.
magazine.metaphorosis.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Enter the curator
Nine years ago, on 1 January 2016, Metaphorosis published its first* story, "The Demon in the Page" by Joshua Philip Johnson. About a month ago, we published our last, "This is My City and I am Her Song" by Suzanne J. Willis. Each is an example of the style and lyricism we strove…
Nine years ago, on 1 January 2016, Metaphorosis published its first* story, "The Demon in the Page" by Joshua Philip Johnson. About a month ago, we published our last, "This is My City and I am Her Song" by Suzanne J. Willis. Each is an example of the style and lyricism we strove…
Happy to announce that a story I’ve been cooking for a while now just got picked up by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social!
Earlier this year, I finished a 100+ hour TV show. The 15-pager “A Brief History of the Doorway Program” is mostly what came of that…
Earlier this year, I finished a 100+ hour TV show. The 15-pager “A Brief History of the Doorway Program” is mostly what came of that…
November 20, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Happy to announce that a story I’ve been cooking for a while now just got picked up by @kaleidotrope.bsky.social!
Earlier this year, I finished a 100+ hour TV show. The 15-pager “A Brief History of the Doorway Program” is mostly what came of that…
Earlier this year, I finished a 100+ hour TV show. The 15-pager “A Brief History of the Doorway Program” is mostly what came of that…
I feel like I’m always nostalgic for two years ago.
November 17, 2024 at 9:45 PM
I feel like I’m always nostalgic for two years ago.
Have you ever wondered how to make a job-stealing A.I. understand what it's writing? Like, really understand?
Check out my latest story, MR. ZEITGEIST, with art by Alfred Klosterman, in Issue 147 of Space & Time Magazine!
Available on Amazon:
Check out my latest story, MR. ZEITGEIST, with art by Alfred Klosterman, in Issue 147 of Space & Time Magazine!
Available on Amazon:
Amazon.com: Space and Time Fall/Winter #147: 9781959048268: Smith, Angela Yuriko, Gold, Maxwell I, Murray, Lee, Linzner, Gordon, Wytovich, Stephanie M, Fawns, Angelique, Hull, Harold Steve, Chow, Pauline, Addison, Linda D., Bruner, Pixie: Books
Amazon.com: Space and Time Fall/Winter #147: 9781959048268: Smith, Angela Yuriko, Gold, Maxwell I, Murray, Lee, Linzner, Gordon, Wytovich, Stephanie M, Fawns, Angelique, Hull, Harold Steve, Chow, Pauline, Addison, Linda D., Bruner, Pixie: Books
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October 18, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Have you ever wondered how to make a job-stealing A.I. understand what it's writing? Like, really understand?
Check out my latest story, MR. ZEITGEIST, with art by Alfred Klosterman, in Issue 147 of Space & Time Magazine!
Available on Amazon:
Check out my latest story, MR. ZEITGEIST, with art by Alfred Klosterman, in Issue 147 of Space & Time Magazine!
Available on Amazon:
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In this volume are great stories by Elizabeth Raphael, @chrisjpanatier, @cade_bura, @MenterDanny, @damianstockli.bsky.social , @maggiedotwrites, EC Dorgan, @cidneymayes.bsky.social s, JJ Eskelin, @esaxey.bsky.social , @[email protected], Cameron Bertron, and @sfeertheorist
Metaphorosis: Best of 2023
Stories of memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart — the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's eighth year.
books.metaphorosis.com/anthology/20...
Stories of memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart — the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's eighth year.
books.metaphorosis.com/anthology/20...
Metaphorosis: Best of 2023
Stories of memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart — the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaph...
books.metaphorosis.com
January 16, 2024 at 6:15 PM
In this volume are great stories by Elizabeth Raphael, @chrisjpanatier, @cade_bura, @MenterDanny, @damianstockli.bsky.social , @maggiedotwrites, EC Dorgan, @cidneymayes.bsky.social s, JJ Eskelin, @esaxey.bsky.social , @[email protected], Cameron Bertron, and @sfeertheorist
Check out this anthology! I’m in some great company!
Metaphorosis: Best of 2023
Stories of memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart — the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's eighth year.
books.metaphorosis.com/anthology/20...
Stories of memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart — the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's eighth year.
books.metaphorosis.com/anthology/20...
Metaphorosis: Best of 2023
Stories of memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart — the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaph...
books.metaphorosis.com
January 16, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Check out this anthology! I’m in some great company!
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New story! She Was the Universe - Damian Stockli,
@DamianStockli
"Feb. 1st, 2030
Night shift in the facility always began the same."
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@DamianStockli
"Feb. 1st, 2030
Night shift in the facility always began the same."
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...
She Was the Universe – Damian Stockli
Feb. 1st, 2030 Night shift in the facility always began the same.
magazine.metaphorosis.com
September 22, 2023 at 4:12 PM
New story! She Was the Universe - Damian Stockli,
@DamianStockli
"Feb. 1st, 2030
Night shift in the facility always began the same."
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...
@DamianStockli
"Feb. 1st, 2030
Night shift in the facility always began the same."
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...
Happy to announce that my first short story, SHE WAS THE UNIVERSE, is up today via @metaphorosis.bsky.social.
Thank you @bmorrisallen.bsky.social for giving this piece the chances it needed to develop. Check it out at the link below!
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...
Thank you @bmorrisallen.bsky.social for giving this piece the chances it needed to develop. Check it out at the link below!
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...
She Was the Universe – Damian Stockli
Feb. 1st, 2030 Night shift in the facility always began the same.
magazine.metaphorosis.com
September 22, 2023 at 11:38 AM
Happy to announce that my first short story, SHE WAS THE UNIVERSE, is up today via @metaphorosis.bsky.social.
Thank you @bmorrisallen.bsky.social for giving this piece the chances it needed to develop. Check it out at the link below!
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...
Thank you @bmorrisallen.bsky.social for giving this piece the chances it needed to develop. Check it out at the link below!
magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/s...