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Hinse Mutter
@hinsemutter.bsky.social
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Debut author, sci-fi, social commentary.

Bachelor of Music classical double bass. Compositions published with Alry and Periferia (UMMP). Did some level design for a PC game.

Professional cultural organizer. Active community volunteer.

He/him.
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ancient nebula
photon barge skims nova pools
vista explosions

#SciFaikuSaturday #Haiku #Observe
'Picture' of a nebula, by NASA.
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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uncontacted tribe
a spacecraft reveals itself
bizarre new rituals

#SciFaikuSaturday #Haiku #Observe
Visuals from the movie Prey. Alien ships fly towards the Earth, where people on the ground are looking up at them.
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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they called it a ship
to us it meant memories
flights of bliss and awe

🚀
#ScifaikuSaturday #Vessel #Haiku
Illustration by Bojun Liu, free from Unsplash. It's a singularity in space, a black hole if you will. It is surrounded but an immense amount of plasma and particles, stark whites and blues. A space ship is visible in silhoutte in front of it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Wrote and submitted my first 100 word scifi drabble! 👽

#writersofbluesky #scifi #writingcommunity #writesky #drabble
Danie Franco via Unsplash
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Received these in the mail!

Ganymedes is a yearly collection of Dutch fantastic tales: this is the 25th year, featuring 30 stories.

I also got their magazine with more stories, and they threw in a free book featuring interviews with Dutch writers! 😄🖤

FantastischeVertellingen.nl #scifi
Three colorful books on a wooden tabletop. From the bottom to top: Ganymedes 25, a yearly collection of 'Fantastic Tellings'. Number 69 in the 'Weird Little Books' series (nice) The 'Fantastic Tellings' magazine, number 75 - September 2025. 'Weird Little Books' 70, 'Cover: Fantastic Vague Conversations'.
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Wrote a thousand words for a short story about fungi and then realised I had drifted off and had been researching Nigeria, early Medieval nuns, and population growth for the past hour 😅

#writingcommunity
Photo by Phoenix Han. Beautiful fungi in a forest, the ground covered with brown leaves
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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pan galactic trade
gold for tribbles for space fuel
rapturous blossoms

#ScifaikuSaturday
#system
#haiku
Beautiful abstract space art by and_machines (for free from unsplash)
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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millions of cultures
contained within an atom
worlds unto themselves

#ScifaikuSaturday
#system
#haiku
White and grey image. Thousands upon thousands of cells, globes, spheres etc. of different sizes clustered and interacting.
November 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Finished @naominovik.bsky.social's short story collection today and got these two in the mail!

Going to start with @travisbaldree.bsky.social's new book before reading @maryrobinettekowal.com's novel.

I don't have any pastries at hand yet but have a feeling they will be needed soon 🤗

#booksky
Three books lying on a wooden table. The books are: Naomi Novik's short story collection Buried Deep, in abeautiful white with dark blue cover with golden lettering. The next book is Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives, a joyful explosion of colors on a black background, as if all the letters and illustrations were hand drawn on a blackboard with chalk. Finally Mary Robinette Kowal's The Calculating Stars. A gorgeous cover in grays, purples, silvers and blacks.
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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she faced death coyly
the digital tombstone read
upload me daddy

#ScifaikuSaturday
#haiku #scifaiku 🖤

Another haiku for the theme #strange. I admit it builds more on my other haiku of today than the theme itself.
Abstract gold and bronze rain like streams
October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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post-digital flowers
mourning her sixth formatting
reboot fete at ten

#ScifaikuSaturday
#haiku #scifaiku

Let me know if you figure out the connection to the theme #strange 🖤
Abstract colorful shapes on a deep, dark background
October 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I hope the Ziltpunk movement is correct. That we are heading towards a utopian variation described by those writers, instead of a dystopia.
A piece of Ziltpunk art. Monumental high tech towers rise up out of the sea, keeping us safe.
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Elections here in the Netherlands next week. Climate is an edge issue in the race.

Meanwhile our country (which conveniently is in large part below sea level) is heading straight towards one of the more dystopian futures described by my fellow Dutch sci-fi writers.

Clogpunk here we come!
A photo. Foggy, with some vegetation sticking out of the water.
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Finished the first volume of Murderbot by @marthawells.com , very nice stuff! Watched the series after, well done 🤖

Now onto the EdgeZero 2024 anthology of Dutch short stories. I read the first three stories and so far I'm having a blast! 🖤
Two books on a table
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Finished @wiswell.bsky.social's book 'Someone you can Build a Nest in'. Really enjoyed it, would recommend! It seems to have achieved everything it set out to do, which must not have been easy considering the main character. 🖤

Now on to read The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com !
The cover of the book. Two creatures stand on a road limned by trees, shrubs and funghi. They are approaching a town, seen off in the distance. The feeling is late medieval.
October 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Got my first rejection, or rather: the absence of a message after the judging date went by and finalists were selected.

Rather than a defeat it feels as if it opens up possibilities. To quote that one Magic the Gathering card: "When nothing remains, everything is equally possible."

On to the next!
A Magic the Gathering card. Black borders with shimmering black and silver foundation. Fields in white (bone, eggshell and other off-white colors) with text on top of it. The card name is One with Nothing. It's an Instant. The design of the card is by Jim Nelson, I believe. The illustration is bright pinks on top of blacks and dark blues. A man, bearded, East Asian, old, bald, stares ahead of him while three glowing pink orbs, each as big as his head, float around him like ball lightnings, connected by visual energy to his head.
October 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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On vacation and finished the excellent duology by @emilytesh.net !

So today I went out and bought the only English language scifi book I could find in this city that I hadn't read yet: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang😊
Books by Emily Tesh and R.F. Kuang
September 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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My partner received her Korean copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness today.

Love the way the writer's name is spelled, in a combination of 한글 and Latin script (the first 6 syllables on the second line) 🖤

And book awards are stylized with dots above them: Hugo & Nebula! 🤩
Part of the back cover of the 2009 edition of the Korean translation of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. Translated by Choi Yongjun (최용준) Pastels: light blue and pinks transitioning over to smooth white cream colors. Stark black Hangeul lettering on the cover: the script used in Korea. Only snippets of the text are visible in this photo. "Hugo award and Nebula award won, making this (one of) Ursula K. Le Guin's most representative books. 40 year edition with foreword and more by the author."
September 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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In the train to Paris. Which one shall I read first? 🚂 📖 🤓
Sangu Mandanna's "A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping" and Emily Tesh's "Silver in the Wood"
September 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Nearly finished @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social's delightful The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

What stunned me most in this book weren't the fantastical encounters. It was the main character not having encountered tea yet, sailing the 12th century Arab waters 🤯

17/17 would recommend the book!
The front cover of the book mentioned in this post. Wild, artful stylized waves and stars in the corners. Guilded rims and borders everywhere with more nested blue, red and black borders in round and rounded shapes. Clouds in the dark, the moon and sun, fish and birds. A dazzling display of a cover
August 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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New book haul! Looking forward to these titles by @marthawells.com, @wiswell.bsky.social, J. Stroud and @naominovik.bsky.social !

Still finishing books by O. Butler, @tkingfisher.com and @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social

Not pictured: @emilytesh.net and S. Mandanna's books (arriving soon)
Seven beautiful books on a wooden table.
August 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Finished the first rough draft of a new short story. Went outside to do some revising in the lovely weather 😎👌

The story:
- Modern setting
- Unintended side effects of a magic spell that actually works
- White supremacist nationalists being butthurt
- 12th century feminist 'witches'
🧙‍♀️✨🔥🤕🦹
A calm scene. A brown earth-covered field, with some fallen leaves here and there. A bench with a trash can in the middle. Large trees with lots of green foliage hang over this square. In the distance lots of different trees. To the right a narrow road, to the left some construction materials. A woman is seated on the bench, facing away from us. On the foreground there is a print version of my third shirt story, which I'm editing here.
August 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Nearly done writing my 2nd short story!

On vacation in Belgium right now, checking out old libraries in the Printing Press museum in Antwerp 🖤

When I get back i'll do more editing on my 1st story before sending it off to sensitivity readers. Anybody have connections in Botswana?🤔
A big room with a black ceiling. There book cases stretching almost to the ceiling on all the walls. They're filled with old parchment books, bound in white and brown leather. It's a room in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Imagine multiple centuries of rich print press owners that liked to collect and show off books. This was one of their favorite rooms. There are wooden and stone busts of classical writers on tables and on top of the book cases. Two huge globes stand on the floor.
July 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.
Still image from Tau Zeta, The Starlost. A huge, shiny bronze and gold robot, with a man next to it looking verrrrrry happy.
July 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Read and watch tip:
-Read 'Heart of Darkness' (1899) by J. Conrad,
-Then watch 'Apocalypse Now' (1979) by F. F. Coppola,
-Then read 'Shatterpoint' (2003) by M. W. Stover.

It's difficult to describe how good (and horrific) these pieces of media are. How they build upon and strengthen each other.
The cover of Star Wars novel 'Shatterpoint'. It seems to be in letter format (or something close to it), standing upright. Bold colors: golds, greens, reds and purple. Centerpiece is Mace Windu, the proud black jedi wearing a simple light brown robe, looking forbidding towards us while stepping out of a dark, menacing jungle. Our eyes are drawn to his bright purple light saber, which lights everything up with a soft, purple hue. In the background we see Depa Billaba (played by actress Dipika O'Neill Joti), whose face is staring at us from the jungle. There are lots of words on the book cover. At the top on a dull gold strip we have 'Legends'. Below it in huge red letters 'STAR WARS'. Below that in gold 'Shatterpoint'. Below that in white 'A clone wars novel'. At the bottom in white: "Matthew Stover. New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Traitor". At the bottom right, quasi embossed on gold in black letters: "With a prologue by George Lucas!"
July 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM