@hinsemutter
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.
A photo of officer Crabtree, played by the actor Arthur Bostrom, from the series 'Allo 'Allo! A white background with a man in front of it, wearing a uniform.
a spy in disguise
offered me a free massage
but Herr Flick awaits
#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku
prompt: message
Lees meer fantastische vertellingen! De nieuwe is te koop, bestel hem hier:
A photo by Thomas Fore (free to use via Unsplash) It's a bright blue sky with a green hot air ballon in front of it. It's very green, and in black has a mouth, nose and eyes drawn on it of the stereotypical Alien head.
My first story got accepted! 🖤
It's a drabble, I'll link it here once it is published!
#scifiwriter #drabble #writing #scifi
what’s left of the rain
binding the sky to the fields
little ghost rivers
Offering my new book of haiku FREE for a limited time over on my blog at the link in my bio. Enjoy and thank you to all the amazing poets and others here who have inspired me, I appreciate you!
#haiku #senryu #poetry #freestuff
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
if not killing people is wrong, then it's wrong to be right
Lots of cool old and new Dutch SciFi books!
@heidivdv.bsky.social De Harland Prijs staat erin vandaag! 😊
Pixel Scroll 2/28/26 The Nature Of My Pixel Emergency? It’s Been Pixelated!
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Was heel leuk je te ontmoeten!
A gigantic kraken next to a puny submarine.
codes running rampant
black waves under blind stars
u-boat duels kraken
#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku
prompt: enigma
And one more epic shot of the hoverbike trooper in the large, majestic hallway of the library. Their pose seems provocative, playful, looking over their right shoulder. In the background stalls carrying books and art and such. All under a gorgeous rounded roof with a floor of white and black towels.
😈 #HarlandPrijs #writer #writersofbluesky #debutauthor #alwayswriting #starwars #scifi #fantasy #horror #bookaward #HarlandAward
The two board members of the Harland Award, giving speeches at the award ceremony. A man dressed in black, very chique, and a woman wearing a colourful ensemble and an amazing hat (that came with it's own light source!!!) in front of the logo of the award.
Some Star Wars cosplayers at one of the smaller sessions during the day, in the lobby of the big library in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in from of an escalator. We can identify a stormtrooper, a hoverbike trooper, a prequel trilogy trooper, a Jawa, and an Imperial officer.
Congratulations to Pam Hage on winning the 2025 Harland Prijs, the Dutch award for best short SciFi/Fantasy/Horror story of the year!
Thank you to all the readers, jury and organisers!
It was my first time participating (and first ever story written). I came in 52nd out of 267 entries. Grateful 🖤
Het podium van Bibliotheek Neude Utrecht, met daarop Martijn Lindeboom, Heidi (met paddestoel-muts) en Pam Hage, die vertelt over haar winnende verhaal. Op de voorgrond de Harland Prijs plaquette die ze kreeg voor het verhaal Error 404. Foto door John Klein Haneveld
Beetje antigif tegen alle ellende: De Harland Prijs 2025 is gewonnen door Pam Hage, met het verhaal Error 404! Gefeliciteerd Pam!
Leuk je ontmoet te hebben! Was een leuke middag!
The cosmic crook crooks
in enigmas thrown about.
Face space confusion.
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku
Heading to Utrecht tomorrow for the 'Middag van het fantastische boek': 'The Afternoon of the Fantastic Book'.
Curious to see which short stories will be chosen this year at the Harland Award, the award for 'best speculative short story'!
Ooh that's a very interesting text! And cool to see how from 1300 on more and more words that still remain in modern Dutch find their way back into English, making some parts surprisingly easy to read.
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It would be so cool and sexy to go into a bookstore and discover a spinning rack of novellas. All sorts of Neon Hemlock and Psychopomp and TorDotCom pleasures and more on a rack that goes whizz whizz whizz
learning buoyancy
in the leisure deck pool
they swam
#ScifaikuSaturday (escape)
#haiku
#senryu
Kindori - Space Whales from Spelljammer Majestic whales swimming through space. Space is a scintillating mass of colors, nebulai, and planetary bodies.
no death nor taxes
just a story on space whales
transporting our mind
#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku
prompt: escape
Boek: Forugh Karimi, In mijn ogen draag ik wolken
Logo: Boekhandelsprijs
De Boekhandelsprijs 2026 voor beste Nederlandse boek volgens Nederlandse boekverkopers gaat naar Forugh Karimi en haar roman In mijn ogen draag ik wolken. Lees het nieuws en een fragment! athenaeumscheltema.n...
Onlangs ontving ik de 'Fluister Award', een glazen beeldje voor het beste luisterboek van 2025 volgens audioboekaanbieder Fluister. Hartstikke leuk! Ik dacht, nu zal de zilvervloot wel binnenvaren, dus ik vroeg hoeveel Fluister mij afgelopen jaar had opgeleverd.
Whites, browns and light blues. A man wearing beige pants and a blue shirt sits on a brown leather couch, staring off into the distance. We see him in profile, from the side. He's sitting in a tall room in a museum. No other people are visible. Far away we can perhaps spot some paintings.
Visited a museum today. My partner took a candid picture of me as I sat down to quickly write down some thoughts for a story I'm working on.
#writing #writersofbluesky #alwayswriting
If you're nominating for the #HugoAwards, may I rec to your attention our wonderful artists for the Rook and Rose pattern deck? I *think* the first two are eligible in the pro artist category and the third in fan (though if you want to be *really* sure, you can nominate them in both). 1- #Hugos
Make sure to already have a bunch of code words or sentences in place, should you ever have to convince yourself that you are in fact you.
I have several but if I told you then my doppelgänger would have to kill you 😈
Both Nebula and Hugo noms are open and I'd love it if you would consider my two favorite things I had out last year:
1. "Because I Held His Name Like a Key", about Alan Turing's affair with a prince of Faerie (and also about self and meaning and, if you squint, about "AI"):
I am not. Perhaps some day 🙂