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SSHRC funded PhD in English at UCalgary. The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
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"The past is whatever we cannot change. This isn’t that. There is still time to move us away from a future that insists upon annihilating humanity to accommodate the annihilation of humans."

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

it is a process of ectacy and agony

Rules of socialization in this universe seem to come down to: "Is he standing around in a haze? Jump on his back. Is he clearly in possession of a weapon? Do not jump on him.

this is really terrible. Libby is such a great resource

It’s so funny to me that the Hugo’s nominate for film. It would make sense if it was like, super indie spec film or whatever but no. They give it to Dune lmao

much needed words from @paulvermeersch.bsky.social

This is like a boomer moment for me but I cannot help it

www.ontariocreates.ca/our-sectors/... Thrilled to see Jake Byrne’s DADDY win the trillium for poetry!

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

I'm beyond honoured that THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS has made its way onto the longlist for The Sunburst Awards, one of the first Canadian Spec awards I learned to care about when I first started writing.

Never forget, no matter when you read this, the worst person you know just started a podcast today

Amy LeBlanc, I used to live here robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/amy-...

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

begging instagram to never show me a reel about benson boone again. I don't care about him, nor do I care about the many people identically responding to him. free me. free me from this curse

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

“Rebel alliance is making Jedi hunting more difficult”

Not enough people understood that this was such a funny post

I know some ppl didn't like the last 2 MI movies and I've seen people arguing the series peaked at Fallout. this is incorrect The series actually peaked in the Fallout trailer when they spliced the MI theme into an imagine dragons song www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb49...

Ads for AI are so insane Chat GPT: outsource every task and thought! Cheat on your homework! Automate everything you love! Replace your faith in god with faith in generative ai!! Google Gemini: use your phone as your best and only friend. We know you have nobody else to talk to. Fucking loser.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

We have an official ruling

Look, I basically only ever shop with indie bookstores, but there is a chapters in the bar near my new place so out of curiosity, I poked my head in. What an incredible selection of just Sarah J Mass and American self help books. That’s what passes for a national bookseller these days lmao

I truly life-changing 20 seconds down at the reservoir

I met somebody so important today down at the reservoir

Explore as @jakecasella reviews DENGUE BOY by @MichelNieva: “Nieva is demonstrating how cosmic horror applies to climate fiction, how these ideas of ancient evil and human derangement are newly relevant in addressing both natural and social crises.” locusmag.com/2025/06...

Congratulations to Ben Berman Ghan on being awarded silver in science fiction from the Foreword Indies for his fabulous novel, The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits: www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

Hey, all y'all! Ben Berman Ghan, aka @inkstainedwreck.ca, takes the silver medal in SciFi at this year's Foreword Indie Awards! It's for his beautiful novel THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS, and now you know! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

sooo just got told that RABBITS is the Foreword Indies Silver Winner for science fiction?!? I have such gratitude to my publishers @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social and my publicist @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social and everyone who helped take this book so much farther than I thought it would go

Things that absolutely didn't happen

The weirdest thing about turning 29 yesterday is that I just feel… 30

here we go ACCUTE 2025 paper

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Have not yet seen Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning but hope there’s a scene where Tom Cruise drives past a car accident and It’s not like when anyone else goes past a car accident because when he goes past, he knows he has to do something, because he’s the only one who really can

I’ve always believed in keeping my scholarship as accessible to the public as possible, but this tells me I think it’s time to delete academia.EDU