Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026American Brandon McNulty just won the world elite men's road cycling championship in Canada! Woohoo! I've had my eye on that guy since he won the Tour of Sicily in 2019! 010
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Writing is dissonant right now. My ambition, as usual, exceeds my imagination. 130
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thomsen's comment was quoted in a letter to William Donovan written by Malcolm R. Lovell. Lovell was attempting to secure the cooperation of Thomsen, who was then serving as Germany's ambassador to the USA. I found this in Anthony Cave Brown's 1982 biography of Donovan, _The Last Hero_. 000
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There’s a website maintained by Roll Call you can find by looking up the president’s name and adding the term “social media posts.” These are posts the president made this afternoon. 354
Reposted by Christopher RoweOnce Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/202623 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com 8550232704
Reposted by Christopher RoweReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This poem also inspired the title for @christopherrowe.bsky.social's short story "The Day-Blind Stars"reactormag.comThe Day-Blind Stars - ReactorAn Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out ends up traveling through space with a small god over millennia. 0111
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wendell Berry has passed. He was a formative influence on me. He wrote this. "Be Still in Haste" How quietly I begin again from this moment looking at the clock, I start over so much time has passed, and is equaled by whatever split-second is present from this moment this moment is the first 070
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is from Christianity Today's Facebook feed. I read it as saying that the game's theological dimensions can be spiritually "formulaic" and thought, yeah, that's for damned sure. 121
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026That’s me in green texting with my friend Tom the night before La Vuelta Ciclista a España started. As Tom said, “I hope we didn’t jinx anybody.” (For those who don’t follow cycling, Tadej Pogacar crashed out of the race yesterday and Enric Mas won today’s stage and is in the leader’s jersey.) 010
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I just got to spend a very pleasant time having coffee and chatting with my Cousin Sarah, who lives in one of those square states out west but is home for a visit. If you have a cousin you don’t get to see very often, my experience suggests you might benefit from giving them a call this evening. 000
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026If you encounter a link on social media to an article in a publication that requires a subscription to read, I invite you to consider not posting a comment that reads, in essence, “I can’t read this because it’s behind a paywall.” Because that’s a pretty boneheaded thing to say. 020
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Over the weekend, I watched one movie and one television episode in which characters sang along to “Drift Away" by Dobie Gray. 000
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I used to like the internet more than I like it now. 260
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Taters inspecting my twenty-dollar farmer’s market haul. 030
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I am deeply saddened by the passing of the extraordinary novelist, John Crowley. 0110
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Going through last week’s entries in my carrying-around notebook. On the second night of the workshop where I was teaching, a woman came up to me and said, “One of my ancestors was murdered by one of yours.” 000
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The Warhammer 40K app won't run on my iPad Pro because I don't have a new enough operating system and I can't upload a newer operating system because my iPad Pro was manufactured in 2012. This idly vexes me. 230
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Look, this is just something I do. I no longer use the Google search engine much but even when I do I try not to say, “I googled it,” I try and say, “I looked it up.” Thus is just something I think, but I don’t think you should commodify your curiosity. 230
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My voice is shot, which makes me realize how much I engaged in the actual physical act of utterance last week, which in turn makes me realize that most weeks I probably read more books by the dead than I have conversations with the quick. 050
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026An idea I’ll almost certainly never act on. Publish a one-shot zine of original sf stories about “ai” titled Holograph. Submissions open to anyone but they must be handwritten and sent by post. Each selected story is accompanied by an image of a page from the original submission. 110
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Last night at the Appalachian Writers Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky. Everybody appears to have had a big old time. 040
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026On each of the past 8 or 9 mornings, I have, from the second day of her life, attempted to catch a red heifer for tagging. It does not bother me that she exhibits greater speed and agility than I do. It does bother me that she exhibits a superior sense of tactics. 0131
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Tomorrow, I go teach at the annual Appalachian Writers Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School on Troublesome Creek. I’ve been there once, 40 years ago, for James Still’s 80th birthday party (I was 16). I took a line from his great poem, “Heritage,” as the title for one of my books. Here it is. 071
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Here's something I believe. All writers of substance are better readers than they are writers. 030
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is a passage from a story in the latest issue of Asimov's. The story is set in 212 AD, the setting is the Italian peninsula, and the characters are specifically said to be speaking Greek. Is there anything about it that throws you out? I was, but suspect I might just be being precious. 010
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In my secluded laboratory here on the farm, I have constructed a device that will concentrate the cosmic rays falling on this part of the earth into a crystal chamber. I plan to bombard myself with those rays and evolutionarily advance myself 50 million years. I need two witnesses. Enquire by post. 171
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Is anyone aware of a Discord or other forum dedicated to discussing the contents of the full range of contemporary speculative fiction periodicals? Such as those listed here? www.trollbreath.com/sff-magazine...trollbreath.comSpeculative Fiction Magazine Subscription Database - Jeff ReynoldsListing of Genre Magazines with links to Subscription pages 011
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I highly recommend today’s episode if The Cycling Podcast, from which I learned that there was an anti fascist counter-Olympics scheduled in Barcelona in 1936 that was interrupted by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The whole episode is fascinating. 000
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" 130
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Posited. If you are a science fiction writer of any description, these, the first two pages of Edmond Hamilton's novelette, "The Star-Stealers," as they appeared on first publication in the February 1929 issue of Weird Tales, have had a profound influence on your creative life. (Art by Hugh Rankin.) 142
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I was just leaving the sandwich shop where I had lunch and the teen girl working the counter called, “I hope you enjoy your book!” as I went out the door. (Banks, Consider Phlebas.) 040
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Got asked by a literary/cultural journal to review a book this morning. They didn't mention pay, so I asked. They said they don't normally pay for reviews. I said I don't write for free. They said, well, how much? I said, principle of the thing & y'all are cool, so 5 bucks? They countered with $50. 040
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I could of course check this but my curiosity is about it is idle at most. Does Uncanny publish more stories written in the present tense (as a percentage of the fiction they publish) than Clarkesworld and Lightspeed? Just came to mind as I was reading the current issues. 000
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I fancy myself a fairly skilled writer but it is beyond my abilities to adequately describe the expression on my brother’s face when I told him I couldn’t take a gardening suggestion of his because doing so would subvert my color story. 020
Reposted by Christopher RoweRobin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Every day that I can buy a book for the library by one of my friends is a good day. Today, it is @christopherrowe.bsky.social 1224
Reposted by Christopher RoweReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026An Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out ends up traveling through space with a small god over millennia... "The Day-Blind Stars" by @christopherrowe.bsky.social is out to read at Reactor now! Art by Hwarim Lee Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.socialreactormag.comThe Day-Blind Stars - ReactorAn Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out ends up traveling through space with a small god over millennia. 062
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 05/04/2026This took longer than it should have but I’m out of practice. 040
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I have finalized my roster and chosen my paint scheme. Pondering a name for this 32nd century mercenary giant robot force. Don’t tell me I don’t know how to spend a Saturday night. 140
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026That time I unknowingly inspired one of the finest uses of government resources with which I am familiar. 053
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 18/03/2026My story, “The Day-Blind Stars,” will appear at Tor’s REACTOR site in April. It was edited by Jonathan Strahan & illustrated by Hwarim Lee. The tag line reads: An Earth explorer in search of something new and strange in the up and out, ends up traveling through space with a small god over millennia. 0101
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I really, really like the HBO show Rooster. I have watched the two episodes released so far twice and am mad they didn’t do that thing they do sometimes where they release all the episodes at once. I’m now thinking maybe they don’t do that anymore, but I wish they did. I would watch them all today. 011
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Things this woman has said to me today include “You should buy chickpeas every time you go to the grocery” and “Do you like Chet Baker?” 021
Christopher Rowe @christopherrowe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Yesterday, my mother sent me the greatest text message I’ve ever received. 030