Timothy Quinn

“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

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

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

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.

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

Evidently Grammarly has yet to introduce irony detection

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

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)

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.

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

smallwondersmag.com/...

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

So ET was an astrobiologist? Seems like a tough job for basically a marmoset. #rewatch

48 hours is a lifetime in the mildly amusing menu business

"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end... The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

Italo Fontana, do I really have to explain?

Now in all fairness, it was a Honeycrisp

Can't remember if this is a painting in the Galleria Borghese, or the guy who checked our tickets at the Galleria Borghese

Thoughts & prayers are FINE

Most data breaches don't result from zero-days or Ocean's Eleven-style heists

Because it's there

Only on British Airways would "title" be a mandatory registration field #JustCallMeBaron

Created a cover downloader for my ebook collection, and this is either the Spanish language edition of I, Robot, or the audiobook read by Jesse Pinkman.