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Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social · 3d

Today's the day! Join us at 3:00pm to celebrate the release of YEAR'S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 3! There'll be readings, signings, and snacks!

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact @analogsf.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this week's blog post, where author Timothy Quinn describes the meaning behind his story "Scarecrow," and reminds us to never become "inoculated to the extraordinary"
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Hammer & Nails

by Timothy Quinn In this special blog post, Timothy Quinn describes the world events and scientific advancements from the last 43 years that inspired his latest story, “Scarecrow,” in o…

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · 9d

If you missed it in @analogsf.bsky.social, @benjaminckinney.com's enjoyably grim "Here at the Freezing End" reappears this month in @morningtransport.bsky.social www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/here-at-th... #playlist

Here at the Freezing End

In this month’s first, free, story, we welcome Benjamin C Kinney back with a story about survival in the midst of the impossible…

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Oct 11

"Pshaw," demurred Holmes. "You may remember my little monograph on the unwarranted use of the transitive property in beach placard authorship."

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Oct 9

Just ask your local independent bookseller to point you at the YBCFSF(V3). They'll know what you mean.

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · Oct 9

We were lucky enough at @smallwondersmag.com to publish @timothyquinn.bsky.social’s “The Warfighter” that appeared in the 2024 edition of this collection. If you’ve got an eligible story, please submit it!

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · Oct 8

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Sep 26

“The Religious Education of Rotisserie Opera” explores the nature of belief in a closed ecosystem; is a manufactured metaphysics really so different than those social, cultural and religious frameworks in which we’re raised today? www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... #scifiJournal

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · Sep 18

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact @analogsf.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our September/October issue is on sale now! Pick up a copy for the latest stories from Jay Werkheiser, Larry Niven, Auston Habershaw, M.L. Clark, and more

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Jul 17

Fortunes fall: enjoy www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas..., with thanks to @metastellar.bsky.social, @mariakorolov.bsky.social & Geordie Morse

Liquidity - MetaStellar

When tax havens fall and robotic police prowl the streets, what happens to those who make a meager living far down in the food chains of offshore corporations? They survive.

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · May 31

Evidently Grammarly has yet to introduce irony detection

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · May 9

If you missed "The Warfighter" last year, it's now online for free in the latest issue of @smallwondersmag.com ...or consider spending $3 for the whole issue & supporting the short fiction ecosystem smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-wa... (thanks to @cislyn.bsky.social ky.social and @granades.com)

Small Wonders

A monthly magazine featuring science fiction and fantasy flash fiction and narrative poetry that packs a punch.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · May 9

Today's reprint by @timothyquinn.bsky.social has relativity, bird bots, and questions of consciousness and identity. Meet "The Warfighter":

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The Warfighter - Small Wonders

Cadence noticed the warfighter on her way to school, and then later walking home along Sixth Avenue he was still in the tiny fenced park and there was a pigeon watching him, which the police had thought at one time was a good way to disguise a camera.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · Apr 30

Issue 23 is coming in May! The cover art is by Vincenzo Cohen. Authors and poets are @carolscheina.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social, @timothyquinn.bsky.social, Bret Nelson, @bogiperson.bsky.social, Gendel Gento, @jonmhansen.bsky.social, @lilliantsay.bsky.social, and @annewilkins.bsky.social.

Cover art for issue 23 (May 2025) of Small Wonders Magazine. A pensive double-headed stone masks floats against a gradient backdrop of dark red. The cover art is by Vincenzo Cohen. The authors and poets in the issue are Carol Scheina, Isabel Cañas, Timothy Quinn, Bret Nelson, Bogi Takács, Gendel Gento, Jon Hansen, Lillian Tsay, and Anne Wilkins. The editors are Stephen Granade and Cislyn Smith.

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Mar 31

Brush up on your exoeconomics by reading "The Liberties" in this month's issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social. onspec.ca (with thanks to Diane L. Walton and @boneblackstories.bsky.social) #ScienceFiction #MadeInCanada

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Mar 22

I suspect in the long run it's cheaper to buy

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Feb 14

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Dammit, who's got the the key to the bunker?
(Is it you?)

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Feb 10

"Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe." — Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Jan 28

...long live the Empire? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/s...

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Jan 28

Feels like we went pretty quickly from flirting with fascism to carrying fascism's child, and inviting fascism's parents over for tea and deportations www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Jan 22

I'll just put it out there that perhaps generous employee discounts on ammo aren't the right way to find a person you trust to helm the gun counter

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Jan 15

Ordered cat food, picked up some clementines, walked past freshly dug shallow grave, dropped off books at library...

Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Jan 9

Housing crisis averted robbreport.com/shelter/new-... #TwoWorlds

Canada’s First Ultra-Luxury Condo Tower Will Be Topped by a 2-Story Super Penthouse

138 Yorkville, a forthcoming luxury development in Toronto's Yorkville neighborhood, will have 67 condos including a two-level penthouse suite with a private rooftop.

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Dec 21

As I replace my paper library with ebooks, there are a few that I can't get rid of, like this copy of The Death and Life of Dith Pran -- signed by Dith Pran, survivor of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields.

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Timothy Quinn @timothyquinn.bsky.social · Dec 14

Ah, I see the confusion. When RFK Jr says he's defending "medical freedom," he's simply protecting our right to die from the same horrible, preventable diseases that the founding fathers died from. #DontCoughOnMe

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