Michael T. Kuester
@michaeltkuester.bsky.social
Engineer, dreamer, #querying hard #scifi writer. Fan of baseball and '70s music. Passionately curious individual. Welcome to my universe. http://kuesterwrites.wordpress.com
Pinned
An #agentsguide to SEVEN DAYS ON SAMARKAND:
JURASSIC PARK x THE EXPANSE x STAR TREK.
Five thousand of Earth's best and brightest seek to live alongside an alien biosphere. But on a planet populated by dinosaurs, is that even possible?
#querying now!
JURASSIC PARK x THE EXPANSE x STAR TREK.
Five thousand of Earth's best and brightest seek to live alongside an alien biosphere. But on a planet populated by dinosaurs, is that even possible?
#querying now!
This is the coolest thing you'll see today.
OUR CLIPPER PRESS RELEASE FOR COMET 3I/ATLAS IS OUT 🥹
i can’t even begin to describe what it feels like to be looking at new and exciting data with europa clipper. it’s a dream come true 😭
www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
i can’t even begin to describe what it feels like to be looking at new and exciting data with europa clipper. it’s a dream come true 😭
www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...
Europa Clipper instrument uniquely observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS | Southwest Research Institute
SwRI-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph viewed 3I/ATLAS both when and where most other assets could not
www.swri.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is the coolest thing you'll see today.
So I've been trying to be more present here on Bluesky, but I've been absorbed with world building lately. If we're old moots from Twitter say "Hi" and ask me about McKendree cylinders.
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So I've been trying to be more present here on Bluesky, but I've been absorbed with world building lately. If we're old moots from Twitter say "Hi" and ask me about McKendree cylinders.
As the year draws to a close, my final update on my work-in-progress of 2025: it’s #WIPWednesday. #WritingCommunity kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/w...
WIP Wednesday
Saying goodbye (for now) to my beloved work-in-progress
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December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
As the year draws to a close, my final update on my work-in-progress of 2025: it’s #WIPWednesday. #WritingCommunity kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/w...
Shifting gears as 2025 draws to a close, in this week’s #WritersDesk. kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/w...
Writer’s Desk
Back to short fiction, query prep (again), pausing my WIP, and more
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December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Shifting gears as 2025 draws to a close, in this week’s #WritersDesk. kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/w...
Disney has licensed their characters to OpenAI for videos. So get ready for the most deranged and perverse Mickey Mouse cartoons ever. Disney really should know better than to trust the internet with literally anything.
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Disney has licensed their characters to OpenAI for videos. So get ready for the most deranged and perverse Mickey Mouse cartoons ever. Disney really should know better than to trust the internet with literally anything.
Decision time for #OctoWIP, in this week’s “WIP Wednesday”. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/w...
WIP Wednesday
It’s decision time for OctoWIP: do I keep writing, or step away for now?
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December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Decision time for #OctoWIP, in this week’s “WIP Wednesday”. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/w...
So I updated iOS, and now everything has this "liquid glass" background, like all my apps are frozen in blocks of ice.
a man in a suit and tie says cool in front of a city skyline
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says cool in front of a city skyline
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
So I updated iOS, and now everything has this "liquid glass" background, like all my apps are frozen in blocks of ice.
I love Tom Gauld. And I, too, am looking forward to the holidays. Don’t need a cool machine to see the new flannel in my future.
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I love Tom Gauld. And I, too, am looking forward to the holidays. Don’t need a cool machine to see the new flannel in my future.
This is incredibly cool
Ultra-thin nanomesh electrodes on breathable substrates enable high-resolution, durable electronic skin devices that closely conform to the body while maintaining conductivity at reduced thickness. doi.org/hbdxgf
New ultra-thin nanomesh electrodes enable breathable 'electronic skin'
Researchers have successfully developed a high-resolution electronic skin (e-skin) device on a breathable (nanomesh) substrate using transfer technology employed in semiconductor manufacturing.
techxplore.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is incredibly cool
Tying up this year’s loose ends, in this week’s “Writer’s Desk”. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/w...
Writer’s Desk
Editing and more editing, looking ahead to query season, and more
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December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Tying up this year’s loose ends, in this week’s “Writer’s Desk”. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/w...
Pity the man who completes all his weekly crossword puzzles before Sunday evening.
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Pity the man who completes all his weekly crossword puzzles before Sunday evening.
So I send make just a couple posts in German and now half the posts on my feed are in German.
December 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So I send make just a couple posts in German and now half the posts on my feed are in German.
I love Tom Gauld. 'Tis the season to work on that TBR pile (before it grows again).
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I love Tom Gauld. 'Tis the season to work on that TBR pile (before it grows again).
So…AWESOME…
High-resolution imaging of two recent novae has revealed complex, multi-stage ejections and delayed outflows, challenging previous assumptions about the simplicity of stellar explosions. doi.org/hbdp6x
Close-up images show how stars explode in real time
Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail.
phys.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So…AWESOME…
Apple TV’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s masterpiece just keeps getting better. Check out this month’s “Sci-Fi Reviewed: Foundation”.
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Sci-Fi Reviewed: Foundation
How Apple TV+ turned Isaac Asimov’s crowning masterpiece into the next great sci-fi epic
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December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Apple TV’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s masterpiece just keeps getting better. Check out this month’s “Sci-Fi Reviewed: Foundation”.
kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/s...
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After NaNoWriMo comes the not-so-fun part: editing. It’s #WIP Wednesday. kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/w...
WIP Wednesday
Picking up the pieces after NaNoWriMo
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December 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
After NaNoWriMo comes the not-so-fun part: editing. It’s #WIP Wednesday. kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/w...
Reposted by Michael T. Kuester
made an 'oops all food' moodboard for KNEADING ANSWERS
#agents if you want cooks with a side of slow burn romance and a serving of cozy mystery, keep an eye out for this contemporary romance in your inbox!
#amquerying
#agents if you want cooks with a side of slow burn romance and a serving of cozy mystery, keep an eye out for this contemporary romance in your inbox!
#amquerying
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
made an 'oops all food' moodboard for KNEADING ANSWERS
#agents if you want cooks with a side of slow burn romance and a serving of cozy mystery, keep an eye out for this contemporary romance in your inbox!
#amquerying
#agents if you want cooks with a side of slow burn romance and a serving of cozy mystery, keep an eye out for this contemporary romance in your inbox!
#amquerying
Are we alone? In my latest “Science in Fiction”, I look at the Fermi Paradox, and how the modern scifi writer can deal with the apparent silence of the cosmos. kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alone in the Universe
How the modern sci-fi writer can deal with the apparent radio silence of our galaxy
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November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Are we alone? In my latest “Science in Fiction”, I look at the Fermi Paradox, and how the modern scifi writer can deal with the apparent silence of the cosmos. kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/a...
Wrapping up #NaNoWriMo and looking ahead, in this week’s #WritersDesk. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/w...
Writer’s Desk
NaNoWriMo winds down, closing the book (so to speak) on WOTF, and more
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November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wrapping up #NaNoWriMo and looking ahead, in this week’s #WritersDesk. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/w...
As we enter the final week of #NaNoWriMo ‘25, it looks like I’m gonna make it. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/n...
NaNoWriMo ’25: Week 3
We’re on the home stretch now
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November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As we enter the final week of #NaNoWriMo ‘25, it looks like I’m gonna make it. #WritingCommunity #booksky kuesterwrites.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/n...
I love Tom Gauld. He's even found a way for our political fringes to learn math!
Maths Puzzles for Conspiracy Theorists.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions.
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I love Tom Gauld. He's even found a way for our political fringes to learn math!
What up, Bluesky #WritingCommunity? I'm plugging away through my new WIP, and loving every minute of November so far.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
What up, Bluesky #WritingCommunity? I'm plugging away through my new WIP, and loving every minute of November so far.
Hardly surprising, but it makes a lot of sense.
Isotopic analysis indicates that Theia, the celestial body that collided with early Earth to form the moon, likely originated closer to the sun, making Earth and Theia early solar system neighbors.
Theia and Earth were neighbors, new research suggests
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth.
phys.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hardly surprising, but it makes a lot of sense.
Just had one of those huge breakthroughs in my story I tend to get while out on a walk. The kind that has me pumping my fists like I just won a marathon, while my neighbors wonder if I’ve lost it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Just had one of those huge breakthroughs in my story I tend to get while out on a walk. The kind that has me pumping my fists like I just won a marathon, while my neighbors wonder if I’ve lost it.