A really intriguing take on time travel from @cornellwriter.bsky.social in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 2. Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont isn't like anything I can think of. A winner. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

@tiffmorris.bsky.social wrote something reminiscent of Patricia McKillip's Forgotten Beasts of Eld or C.J. Cherry's Arafel's Saga with Wapnintu'tijig: They Sang Until Dawn in Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol 2. Lyrical. Mysterious. Or Mythterious. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

Revelstoke by Gemma Files. Think Black Company with Vikings meets The Witcher? Classic sword and sorcery. And Orcus the lich-steed! Another good one from Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 2. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

"Her pulled off a historic upset on a night when most everyone at her watch party expressed confidence ... Her began her remarks by thanking her opponent ... his role years ago hiring Her to work for him, kicking off Her’s political career." Pronoun wizardry? No. It's Kaohly Her, mayor-elect. #her

Horsewoman by @alyxdellamonica.bsky.social. Part Handmaid's Tale in tone, part mystical, part Parable of the Talents prescient, it is going to live in my mind for some time. Another winner from Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

Rich Larson's LOL, Said the Scorpion from Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 2 is one I'll be thinking about for a while. Great worldbuilding. Creepy and innocuous setting. Great ending. The ramifications of future technology in mundane places. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.

Hey @the-independent.com, do you really need to repeat the same information three times? When trying to determine if I'm going to read it I'd like some hint as to what I'm clicking on. I don't need to read the same headline three times.

What's Left Behind by @isapie50.bsky.social (translated by Margaret Sankey) from Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol 2 was intriguing and riveting. First contact? Maybe. Similar to Solar Gravitational Lens in impact for a final crucial decision. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

The clever continues. For the Robots by J.D. Dresner was an enjoyable little interlude in Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 and I really enjoyed the humor. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

Really enjoyed The Lover from @silviamg.bsky.social in Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol 2. Very folk-lore influenced and mysterious. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

@aleksandrahill.bsky.social really brought it with Secondhand Music. I'm not sure which title is cleverer, this or Solitaire for Three. Another hit for Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol 2 and @ourmankoto.bsky.social. Thoughtful, plausible, a hint of the fear of AI, satisfying. #booksky

@jagardner.bsky.social has a winner with Solitaire for Three. Some creepy magic meets an unlikely practitioner. Another hit for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol 2. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

@ourmankoto.bsky.social I need a hash tag shortcut for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. That name takes up half the allowable text. 😀 #YBCF&SF:V2 #booksky

@manuelaamiouny.bsky.social hit it out of the park with The Long Way Home from Gaia BH1 in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. In the opening section a returning pilot notices something off about the person greeting her. We are on a wild ride. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

@pbarmby.bsky.social's short story Solar Gravitational Lens from Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2 was intriguing, setting up an interesting dilemma. Very enjoyable. @ourmankoto.bsky.social #booksky

I really enjoyed @kharb.bsky.social's short story A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. It was witty, clever, and very enjoyable. Guess i should be tagging @ourmankoto.bsky.social in these for his selections.

@smithwriter.bsky.social brought it with his short story If I Should Fall Behind in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. Engrossing. Riveting. Mysterious. Memorable. Excellent. This anthology is picking up steam.

@premeemohamed.com has done it again in the Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 2. The story At Every Door A Ghost was captivating. Excellent work.

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

@ourmankoto.bsky.social I got to add Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 3 to @thestorygraph.com.

I have a top-loading washing machine, and when I'm unloading it I like to pretend I'm a claw crane arcade machine grabbing the biggest handful. The problem is I have these tiny little hands so my payoff isn't that impressive. It doesn't stop me from pretending.

Picked this up because I've been intrigued by the author's spec fiction and wanted to try more mainstream-ish writing. #booksky @tananarivedue.bsky.social

OMG I'm so nervous watching #UConn play South Carolina. #WFinalFour

What an amazing breakthrough, providing hope to so many.

Played Flip 7 4 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

@premeemohamed.com Congrats on the Nebula nomination for The Butcher and the Forest!

Finished Shadow Rising, book 4 in my #WOT read-through. 4 Stars. On to Fires of Heaven. I read this while I was in the hospital for brain surgery (I had a large meningioma removed) and there were long swaths of boring to me, offset by unbelievably riveting action scenes and plot twists. #booksky

This is awesome! Buy Canadian designed games!

The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Trump’s fascists really don’t want you to see or share this video from Rep. @aoc.bsky.social’s Know Your Rights webinar.

REPOST if you stand with AOC!

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

OMG, I just binge-watched the rest of season 2 of The Diplomat, and now I have to wait until season 3 comes out. Crazy ending cliffhanger!

Wow. The Diplomat Season 2 Episode 2 St. Paul's is one of the greatest episodes of any show ever. Two episodes of The Americans stood above the others, and this has surpassed them. The level and array of conflicting, deep emotions portrayed by the cast was amazing. And the spycraft. Stellar!

Finished The Great Hunt today. 4.5 out of 5 stars. I liked Eye of the World slightly better. My enjoyment of this one was heavily influenced by my watching of the show, especially the damane-related scenes. I probably need to get ahead of the show. #wheeloftime

They talk about living w/ kids with #ADHD. What about kids living with parents with it? I just snapped at my kid for disrupting me while I was listening to a message from school saying they'll be arriving late, then again when she got the time wrong when sharing her joy. #prettylow #sorrysweetie

Keri Russell is amazing. I loved her in The Americans, but she is even better in The Diplomat. What an incredible portrayal of a wonderfully written character. At times laugh out loud funny, witty, riveting, clever. Bravo!

I want to be an activist, but I also want to retain my mental health. Perhaps I can just choose a few big rocks to prioritize and keep some balance.

@stephenking.bsky.social enjoyed The Diplomat, and after the first episode I am, too. There have been a couple of other recommendations he's made that I've enjoyed. So far we are batting 1.000.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

"In the darksome night of despair, my eye turneth expectant and full of hope to the morn of Thy boundless favor and at the hour of dawn my drooping soul is refreshed and strengthened in remembrance of Thy beauty and perfection." ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í Prayers