Christopher Rowe
@christopherrowe.bsky.social
Writer, reader, cyclist, cook, traveller. THE NAVIGATING FOX, starred review in Publishers Weekly, out now from Tordotcom Publishing.
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Nobody ever reads the acknowledgements, but everybody should. They should especially read the acknowledgements in Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.
January 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Nobody ever reads the acknowledgements, but everybody should. They should especially read the acknowledgements in Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.
The first fiction I've been able to complete in...well, quite some time. Fiction is what's hardest, both reading and writing. Well, and remembering to eat, hah. But seriously, very much on the upswing! New story! Possibly terrible! New story! I'm so relieved.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The first fiction I've been able to complete in...well, quite some time. Fiction is what's hardest, both reading and writing. Well, and remembering to eat, hah. But seriously, very much on the upswing! New story! Possibly terrible! New story! I'm so relieved.
Very much on the upswing, I just wish that the folks who do the deciding on this stuff could agree with one another about various things. BUT. This afternoon (when, frankly, I should have been working on something else so it's not all roses), I started and finished a 1,000 word story.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Very much on the upswing, I just wish that the folks who do the deciding on this stuff could agree with one another about various things. BUT. This afternoon (when, frankly, I should have been working on something else so it's not all roses), I started and finished a 1,000 word story.
Not sharing any real details, but some friends, family, and colleagues know I'm dealing with some weird, fairly significant, and frankly sometimes scary stuff to do with cognition and memory. (this gets cheerier, keep reading!)
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Not sharing any real details, but some friends, family, and colleagues know I'm dealing with some weird, fairly significant, and frankly sometimes scary stuff to do with cognition and memory. (this gets cheerier, keep reading!)
By my viewing of the first two seasons of Rings of Power it was like maybe 29 years.
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
By my viewing of the first two seasons of Rings of Power it was like maybe 29 years.
A Doonesbury comic strip written and drawn by Gary Trudeau, published in 1980.
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A Doonesbury comic strip written and drawn by Gary Trudeau, published in 1980.
Holding Chi’s hair out of the wind while she practices her Demerara rum spokesmodel skills.
December 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Holding Chi’s hair out of the wind while she practices her Demerara rum spokesmodel skills.
Me and Guyana’s two greatest exports. Chi gives me a bottle of El Dorado rum for my birthday.
December 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Me and Guyana’s two greatest exports. Chi gives me a bottle of El Dorado rum for my birthday.
Y’all are both aces.
As for the original question re the Breaking In Brigade, I’ve long since given up and alternate, depending on the vibe I get from my interrogator, among “I’m not at liberty to say,” “Ya gotta invest in kneepads and chapstick,” and “Sorry, you had to be there, you’re too late.”
As for the original question re the Breaking In Brigade, I’ve long since given up and alternate, depending on the vibe I get from my interrogator, among “I’m not at liberty to say,” “Ya gotta invest in kneepads and chapstick,” and “Sorry, you had to be there, you’re too late.”
December 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Y’all are both aces.
As for the original question re the Breaking In Brigade, I’ve long since given up and alternate, depending on the vibe I get from my interrogator, among “I’m not at liberty to say,” “Ya gotta invest in kneepads and chapstick,” and “Sorry, you had to be there, you’re too late.”
As for the original question re the Breaking In Brigade, I’ve long since given up and alternate, depending on the vibe I get from my interrogator, among “I’m not at liberty to say,” “Ya gotta invest in kneepads and chapstick,” and “Sorry, you had to be there, you’re too late.”
Floodtire Baby, by Celeriac Carson. What's hard about that?
December 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Floodtire Baby, by Celeriac Carson. What's hard about that?
Hey Siri, transfer sole command of NORAD to my phone.
December 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hey Siri, transfer sole command of NORAD to my phone.
As of yesterday, I am 56 Earth years old. As a science fiction writer of some regard, if little fame, I am obliged to add that also as of yesterday, I am 29.78 Mars years old.
December 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
As of yesterday, I am 56 Earth years old. As a science fiction writer of some regard, if little fame, I am obliged to add that also as of yesterday, I am 29.78 Mars years old.
Apparently, I should have made it clearer that this is a joke.
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Apparently, I should have made it clearer that this is a joke.
I'm trying to get up a gaming group here in Adair County and failing to enlist the aid of my nephew, William. I made up this poster for him to hang around the campus of the local college, which he attends. He is a sports nut and the opposite of a nerd. He does not seem amenable to this idea.
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'm trying to get up a gaming group here in Adair County and failing to enlist the aid of my nephew, William. I made up this poster for him to hang around the campus of the local college, which he attends. He is a sports nut and the opposite of a nerd. He does not seem amenable to this idea.
RIP, Mr. Stoppard.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
RIP, Mr. Stoppard.
Or, if you're really ambitious, read this 125 page report, which the article is based on. It's written for a generalist reader, it seems to me, and has even more extraordinary material throughout. Worth spending some time with.
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
www.un.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Or, if you're really ambitious, read this 125 page report, which the article is based on. It's written for a generalist reader, it seems to me, and has even more extraordinary material throughout. Worth spending some time with.
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
I highly recommend a slow, beginning-to-end reading of this fascinating article.
www.forbes.com/sites/duncan...
www.forbes.com/sites/duncan...
Tokyo Loses Title Of World’s Most Populous City, According To UN
New UN rankings have redefined how city populations are measured—and it's shaken up the rankings. Here are the ten most populous cities in the world.
www.forbes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I highly recommend a slow, beginning-to-end reading of this fascinating article.
www.forbes.com/sites/duncan...
www.forbes.com/sites/duncan...
One of the best lessons my mother taught me in the kitchen is to always finish the mashed potatoes just minutes before service. I've been to so many home-cooked dinners where the mashed potatoes just sat there in their serving dish, hardening into inedibility.
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One of the best lessons my mother taught me in the kitchen is to always finish the mashed potatoes just minutes before service. I've been to so many home-cooked dinners where the mashed potatoes just sat there in their serving dish, hardening into inedibility.
It’s not perfect, but I pay eleven bucks a month for the Kagi browser because it’s pretty easy to get it to return no AI results. I think it’s just an option you click in the settings. (The other reason I use it is that it seamlessly searches inside the contents of PDFs that are online.)
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s not perfect, but I pay eleven bucks a month for the Kagi browser because it’s pretty easy to get it to return no AI results. I think it’s just an option you click in the settings. (The other reason I use it is that it seamlessly searches inside the contents of PDFs that are online.)
This and that going on and I find myself reading a book I’ve probably read a half dozen times, the book it seems like I always read when I just can’t get into any book of any sort. The book is titled First-and-Only and it was written by Dan Abnett.
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This and that going on and I find myself reading a book I’ve probably read a half dozen times, the book it seems like I always read when I just can’t get into any book of any sort. The book is titled First-and-Only and it was written by Dan Abnett.