Hinse Mutter

@hinsemutter

Sci-fi/fantasy author. Published in: Eye to the Telescope, Ganymedes, Hiraeth, RAEHorrors. BMus classical double bass. Compositions published with Alry and Periferia (UMMP). Professional cultural organizer. Active community volunteer. He/him.

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Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· 7d

Visited the Latvian National Library. A colossus of glass and steel guarding the city's waterfront.

A mountain of glass, basking in the sun.

Books stacked a dozen meters tall inside the main hall of the library. Very impressive.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· 9d

Ah, I see you too are a person of culture 🥸

White text on a black background.

[fight scene hand to hand describe]

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· 18d

Thrilled to learn that my poem 'Mirth Contact' is selected for publication in the upcoming 61st issue of Eye to the Telescope! The issue is all about aliens! My poem goes into a lighthearted, fun direction 👽🚀 #SFF #poetry #SciFiPoetry #SciFi #ETTT #SFPA #BookSky

The header of the website of the online magazine 'Eye tot the Telescope'. We see a green, sparkly space nebula background. On it a rectangular dark green field with golden borders and golden lettering, of the magazine's name. To the left an image of a purple eye, to the right a blue image of space, with stars and galaxies.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· 19d

I have a writing deadline coming up soon, and also a composition for large classical orchestra I have to finish. Spending this summer vacation alternating between writing furiously in a dark room, and seeing friends outside in the sun. Good times ✍️🎵🌞🍸 #booksky #writing #amwriting #composing

Photo by myself. It's trees in a forest, shot from below and looking up at a 45-ish degree. Beautiful sun shines through the foliage, bringing out bright green colors against almost black bark. Through the trees we see a bright blue sky and white clouds.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· 26d

I got 2nd place in last year's Drabble contest! Just received the collection with the best 10 drabbles in the mail.🎉 The theme for this edition was 'Earth's Guidebook for Extraterrestrials'. I wrote a funny story about aliens being weirded out by us humans 👽 [1/2] #scifi #boeksky #drabble #booksky

A book held in a hand in front of green and white plants.

The title is Drabble Harvest #15. The cover is in earth tones, with a woman in a white see-through-ish veil draped over her.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· 28d

Writers, tell us how many submissions you have out there at the moment! Right now I have seven submissions speeding down photonic highways. Two short stories, one flash fiction, and four poems, all sci-fi. 😶 Let's hope at least one of them gets accepted. #amwriting #writer

Image by Frank R. Paul. A huge red robot on large tracks is grabbing at yellow flying machines, catching one in its left hand. We see a blue planet with hills and mountains, and a large yellow-ish planet rising on the horizon.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 12

I don't know how to turn off this poor confused spellcheck. It's okay little buddy. Neologisms can be nerving at first. You'll get there. Well, let's hope you get there before everything becomes even more enshittified. #enshittification

Black text on a white background. The word 'enshittified' is underlined in red.

Partial sentences that can be red are:
... there was not a single gove...
...lions of enshittified pieces...

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 12

On a roll with several sci-fi poems finished in the past ten days. Starting on a short story for a competition, plus writing a piece for full orchestra for another competition. Glad I'll have vacation next weekend: more time to tinker away! Also, this flower just opened up, woohoo! 🌹 🙌

An almost close-up photo of green plants in a rectangular flower pot. It's made of dark plastic, suspended from the rail on a balcony, next to other suspended pots. There is soft lighting around hitting the balcony and street below: sun filtering through leaves of an unseen tree.

There is a red circle around a tiny white dot. The first flower opening up in this batch of green stems and leaves. Go little fella, you can do it!

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 11

the winter of thought post-euclidean hallways mad architect's dream prompt: design #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #design

Escher's 'Relativiteit' (Relativity). A 1953 work that shows the inside (?) of a building where gravity works in different directions. Humans walk up and down stairs etc. in seemingly impossible ways.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 9

Writing sci-fi poetry, and I recite some of it to my partner. She asks: "what's Hawking radiation?". I ask if she really wants me to explain, or if she wants to escape the part where I start nerding out. She was out the door in a heartbeat 🤣 #scifi #poetry #HawkingRadiation #amwriting

Image by Norbert Kowalczyk
A black hole, seen partially, rendered in black and white. The accretion disk buzzes and shakes, billions upon billions of lightwaves and particles doing a dance of destruction. It is a titanic, beautiful, monstrous image.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 4

the spaceship landed they were to men as men to mice a chasm of wisdom prompt: genius #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #genius

Image by Salim Doukani

A spaceship with beautiful bright yellow contours flies through some kind of hyperspace.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 4

Finished a piece of poetry today. Continuing work on a few short stories and a novel 👽 #booksky #writing #amwriting

Photo by Jon Moore. A tall tree, photographed from below. Brilliant sun shines through the leaves, a play of shadows among the green.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jul 1

Today we celebrate Keti Koti ('the chain is cut/broken') in the Netherlands, the ending of Dutch slavery. Lots of other celebrations, panels, talks and exhibitions today: I'm visiting some of them.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 27

In @scalzi.com's short story 'When the Yoghurt Took Over', the yoghurt achieves sentience in the night of June the 27th. All I'm saying is: keep an eye on your dairy tomorrow morning folks 😉 #booksky #scifi #sff

A still from the Netflix show 'Love, Death & Robots'. It's a bowl of yoghurt with grains floating in it in the shape of the words 'TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER'.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 27

space kitty playtime gets stuck on the asteroid won't come down prompt: rescue #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #rescue

Picture by Gabriel Robledo

A scared cat in a tree

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 20

Today was the Dag van de Componist (Day of the Composer) in the Netherlands. Here's a picture of my friend Hans Blok on trumpet and myself on double bass, playing contemporary classical music. #DagvandeComponist #contemporarymusic #composer #modernmusic #classicalmusic

Two dude musicians, one on the left playing double bass and on the right playing trumpet.

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Contrabas, trompet, klassieke muziek, contrabass.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 19

we burned down the Earth computing the solution to stop climate change prompt: quantum #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #quantum

Photo by Gaspar Uhas, from Unsplash.

A hand holding a flower at sunset. The flower is burning. It's a beautiful photo.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 14

Holding the first book featuring a story of mine. Truly a special feeling! Congratulations and thanks to editor Ruth Anna Evans and all 22 authors I am sitting next to in this anthology! Get the book on Amazon or in bookstores like B&N, plus soon hopefully worldwide! mybook.to/ZXNqID #DebutAuthor

Two hands holding a book. The book cover is in black and white, scary hands reaching down in the dark. In arterial red it says NEED: Horror Stories You Can't Live Without. In white below: Edited by Ruth Anna Evans.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 14

The water you drink is millions of years old. Your left arm has molecules from a different supernova than your right arm. It's all Eldritch or wondrous! 😲🤩

Astronauts with gun meme.

Astronaut 1: It's ALL Eldritch horror?
Astronaut 2: Always has been

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 12

immoral loophole harvesting renaissance oil by weekly time jump prompt: portal #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #portal

Image by Logan Gutierrez, nearly black and white, photo plus 3D work.

A portal lighting up in the middle of a snowy park. Dark trees on white and brown fields. The portal is shining brightly white, dark metal rims lining it.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 11

And just like that our anthology is #18 in LGBTQ+Horror eBooks, among others 😍 The book is: 'NEED: Horror Stories You Can't Live Without', get it here: mybook.to/wiDsfH #horror #book #booksky #anthology

In the background we see the cover of the book NEED: Horror stories you can't live without.

Up top it says:
Best Sellers Rank: #44,953 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#18 in LGBTQ+ Horror eBooks
#18 in Horror Collections & Anthologies (Kindle Store)
#24 in Horror Collections & Anthologies (Books)

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 8

Mijn gedicht 'Een klomppunkdystopie' is geaccepteerd voor publicatie in Ganymedes 26! Mijn eerste Nederlandse publicatie 🎉 My poem 'A Clogpunk Dystopia' was accepted for publication in Ganymedes 26! It's my first Dutch publication 🚀 Out the 5th of September! #poem #sff #gedicht #writing

Book cover. Nice, artsy. The book is seen from the front, diagonally.

In gold, the title is GANYMEDES 26. We see a room with greyish walls and a wooden table. On the table are pieces of paper, pictures, some kind of magazine, not really clear what the are. All of them with touches of gold.

From the bottom of the cover a white box, slightly open with a huge eyeball in it, is looking out. Below it a black label with red words says 'Rare boekjes reeks' (weird little books series)

Dominating the cover is a golden frames painting of a goldenish uniform. The person wearing the uniform is missing a face, instead there is lots of smoke coming from the neck, like a chimney.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 7

A bit emotional from this beautiful review I got for my first published story ever in the anthology NEED! (I hear authors are not necessarily supposed to read reviews but since this is my first time, just this once?) Get the anthology here, release in 3 days! mybook.to/tDUcJ #book #scifi #horror

Hinse Mutter's "Self-checkout": near-future flash fiction, yet it makes you think, and of all the stories, I felt it had the greatest impact; a third generation immigrant just NEEDS to help a homeless person - even as the system has just reclassified her as an illegal alien. Brutal ending.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 6

celestial trash heap discarded universes collecting dust prompt: orb #SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #sff #orb

Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler (GSFC) and Erin Grand (UMCP)

Swift’s UV Portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory viewed our neighboring spiral galaxy Andromeda, also called M31, in ultraviolet light. The image was made from 330 images from Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 4

When I create amazing characters and they suddenly won't do what I want them to do anymore. #bookmeme #booksky #writingmeme #write #writing

Meme, one panel. The director from the movie The Truman Show is staring at the big screen, looking at his show and creation. The caption reads 'Why won't my characters behave?'

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 4

Wrote the first 10,000 words of my Fantasy novel, progressing nicely. Incredibly inspiring to dive into research of dozens of local Dutch myths and weaving them into the story. I'm also working on some hard sci-fi short stories in the background, the complete other side of the SFF spectrum. 👽🚀 - 🧙‍♀️🪄

A blurred out view of some writing. The words that are visible are 'chapter 1, Hunebed D53'. Hunebed is the Dutch word for dolmen.

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 3

When the temptation to do some unnecessary research instead of getting those all important words on paper hits... #bookmeme #booksky #writingmeme #write #writing

Meme, one panel. Batman hits Robin in the face mid-sentence.

"I want to do some more research..."
-"Just write!!!"

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· Jun 2

My phone's autocorrect when I'm quickly jotting down some notes for a Fantasy novel I'm working on, in a language different from the phone's language. #sff #bookmeme #booksky #writingmeme #autocorrect

Meme image. Still image from that boat hijack movie. The hijacker looks at the captain (off-screen) and points at his own eyes with two fingers, saying: "Look at me, I'm the writer now".

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· May 31

Congratulations to all of the 2026 Locus Awards Winners! locusmag.com/2026/05/2026... A thread with all the winners: 🚀 SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL 🚀 Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) 🧙 FANTASY NOVEL 🧙 The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)

Banner for the 2026 Locus Awards.

Black and purple, with white lettering. In big letters it says 2026 LOCUS AWARDS WINNERS. To the left there is a statuette, that winners got with their names and category on it. To the right it says 'Trophy art by Shaun Tan', underneath a nice drawing of a space ship going up in space and flying past heavenly bodies.

Locus awards, scifi, fantasy, science fiction

Hinse Mutter@hinsemutter· May 30

Anthology by @ruthannaevans.bsky.social Foreword of the anthology by @sumikoska.bsky.social Stories by @winonamorris.bsky.social, @marktowse.bsky.social, @emmaemurray.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social and 15 other authors! #horror #scifi #book #BookSky #author #alwayswriting #write