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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RIP, Mr. Stoppard.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
RIP, Mr. Stoppard.
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...
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.
I was just pushed a post by an educational organization with "writing project" in its name that was in fact a repost from some other outfit. The writing project had offered this with their forward:
"Long but worth the read."
"Long but worth the read."
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I was just pushed a post by an educational organization with "writing project" in its name that was in fact a repost from some other outfit. The writing project had offered this with their forward:
"Long but worth the read."
"Long but worth the read."
I am now old, impoverished and ill. But my shadow can shoot lightning from its eyes.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I am now old, impoverished and ill. But my shadow can shoot lightning from its eyes.
I don’t know what your idea of fun is, but mine is NOT carrying a struggling 130 pund Wagyu calf 200 yards in the pouring rain.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I don’t know what your idea of fun is, but mine is NOT carrying a struggling 130 pund Wagyu calf 200 yards in the pouring rain.
attn: DC Comics. 120 page graphic novel. Kid Psycho in the 21st Century. It's obviously past time. Contact me via my agent.
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
attn: DC Comics. 120 page graphic novel. Kid Psycho in the 21st Century. It's obviously past time. Contact me via my agent.
I am taking my afternoon off indulging myself in a game of sorts, one of my own invention, which I am calling BrontëTech. Riffing off something I mentioned in an Amazon review of the special “Gothic” issue of Shrapnel, the magazine devoted to the vast BattleTech fiction and gaming shared universe...
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am taking my afternoon off indulging myself in a game of sorts, one of my own invention, which I am calling BrontëTech. Riffing off something I mentioned in an Amazon review of the special “Gothic” issue of Shrapnel, the magazine devoted to the vast BattleTech fiction and gaming shared universe...
When you pull your on hoodie backwards, don't fret. Just kind of shrug it around. But be careful of your glasses, which you forgot to take off first.
October 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When you pull your on hoodie backwards, don't fret. Just kind of shrug it around. But be careful of your glasses, which you forgot to take off first.
The bovine mind is a mysterious thing.
October 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The bovine mind is a mysterious thing.
I’m introducing a new internet acronym. OAL;TY. Of appropriate length; thank you.
October 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I’m introducing a new internet acronym. OAL;TY. Of appropriate length; thank you.
Some days your biggest accomplishment is going to be getting a chain wrapped too tautly around a gate unstuck. That’s not a metaphor.
Related: It is always easier to chain a gate than to unchain a gate. You can use that one as a metaphor, I guess.
Related: It is always easier to chain a gate than to unchain a gate. You can use that one as a metaphor, I guess.
October 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Some days your biggest accomplishment is going to be getting a chain wrapped too tautly around a gate unstuck. That’s not a metaphor.
Related: It is always easier to chain a gate than to unchain a gate. You can use that one as a metaphor, I guess.
Related: It is always easier to chain a gate than to unchain a gate. You can use that one as a metaphor, I guess.
Make of this what you will. I hate to be pessimistic; perhaps it simply indicates that the new owners are going to handle their own electronic subscriptions. From Weightless Books:
October 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Make of this what you will. I hate to be pessimistic; perhaps it simply indicates that the new owners are going to handle their own electronic subscriptions. From Weightless Books:
A title, byline, and editorial blurb for a story in the November 1934 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. Sure, time and Freud’s cigar must be taken into account but it makes me wonder about editor Farnsworth Wright’s sense of humor. And of self-awareness.
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A title, byline, and editorial blurb for a story in the November 1934 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. Sure, time and Freud’s cigar must be taken into account but it makes me wonder about editor Farnsworth Wright’s sense of humor. And of self-awareness.
A friend once told me that the closest parallel to NFTs —a previous “inevitable” thing foisted on a world that deserves better—was those certificates you can order that give you “ownership” of a star.
October 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A friend once told me that the closest parallel to NFTs —a previous “inevitable” thing foisted on a world that deserves better—was those certificates you can order that give you “ownership” of a star.
Bow to your partner.
Bow to the lady across the hall.
Bow to the lady across the hall.
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bow to your partner.
Bow to the lady across the hall.
Bow to the lady across the hall.
I must admit that the practice illustrated in the attached images both irritates and concerns me. The pictures are the cover and first page of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars as it first appeared in book form in 1917, and then the cover and first page of the same book as published in 2024.
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I must admit that the practice illustrated in the attached images both irritates and concerns me. The pictures are the cover and first page of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars as it first appeared in book form in 1917, and then the cover and first page of the same book as published in 2024.
A commonplace conversation once often heard around here that you don’t hear anymore:
“Are you not gonna lock the door?”
“Nah. Somebody might need to get in.”
“Are you not gonna lock the door?”
“Nah. Somebody might need to get in.”
October 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A commonplace conversation once often heard around here that you don’t hear anymore:
“Are you not gonna lock the door?”
“Nah. Somebody might need to get in.”
“Are you not gonna lock the door?”
“Nah. Somebody might need to get in.”
Robert E. Howard fans be advised.
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Robert E. Howard fans be advised.
God bless Jane Goodall, Ambassador to Our Cousins. Her work helped us better understand ourselves.
October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
God bless Jane Goodall, Ambassador to Our Cousins. Her work helped us better understand ourselves.
Who knows what this is? Don’t be tacky and no fun by looking this up with a search engine or whatever.
October 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Who knows what this is? Don’t be tacky and no fun by looking this up with a search engine or whatever.