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The Hollow Stone | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Thoughts on creativity, publishing, and the mess in which we're in. From the author of Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, and Darkness Come Alive.

The Hollow Stone | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Thoughts on creativity, publishing, and the mess in which we're in. From the author of Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, and Darkness Come Alive.

Sunset meets Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Hollow Stone Press has a new home, plus get the complete third season of Sunset

Monumental | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Sunset 5.3 is here! Plus, why this newsletter has a new home.

Lunacid
Cast into the Great Well, unwanted by the world above. You delve the dark in search of the Old One, your last salvation. Lunacid is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by Shadow Tower and King’s Field.

THRESHOLD
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Release the pressure | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Episode four of Sunset Season Five is here!

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simon…
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

Everything is about to “go dark”
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…

The Reckoning | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
The final episode of Season Five is here

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The New Moon Eclipse + Year of the Fire Horse

Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle – Dan Shapiro's Blog
Companies are now producing Dark Factories – engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like…
Aesthetics Wiki | Fandom
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Take back the web. Make it weird again - soulcruzer

Sunset meets its Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism - Aaron Ross Powell
Technorealists, the silent majority? - open self
Skyreader Vision - Skyreader Dev Log

Road to a book lexicon (Part 2) - Nick The Sick