Today's the day! Join us at 3:00pm to celebrate the release of YEAR'S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 3! There'll be readings, signings, and snacks!

Check out this week's blog post, where author Timothy Quinn describes the meaning behind his story "Scarecrow," and reminds us to never become "inoculated to the extraordinary" theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/11/04/h...

If you missed it in @analogsf.bsky.social, @benjaminckinney.com's enjoyably grim "Here at the Freezing End" reappears this month in @morningtransport.bsky.social www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/here-at-th... #playlist

"Pshaw," demurred Holmes. "You may remember my little monograph on the unwarranted use of the transitive property in beach placard authorship."

Just ask your local independent bookseller to point you at the YBCFSF(V3). They'll know what you mean.

We were lucky enough at @smallwondersmag.com to publish @timothyquinn.bsky.social’s “The Warfighter” that appeared in the 2024 edition of this collection. If you’ve got an eligible story, please submit it!

“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

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

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)

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

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...

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.

If you missed "The Ordained" the first time around, don't sweat it — it's a free download in the current issue of Polar Borealis polarborealis.ca/currentback-...

The possum living behind our shed is actually an opossum. Or a macpossum. The genealogical records are spotty.

Just wanted to say, sorry I missed your call, unidentified nation-state

For god's sake, make sure you ask for JUST the vape

Okay, listen, I'll just give you the ChatGPT synopsis: it's basically a story about Three Lonely People and a Machine factorfourmag.com/three-lonely... (If you liked this one, subscribe to @factorfourmagazine.com here and in your inbox.)

If you feel sometimes that intelligence is the exception to the rule, you'll identify with this worst case scenario from Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... (with thanks to Jacey for the art)

Talent & Culture has gone Metastellar www.metastellar.com/fiction/tale...

Step 1: engage in grossly anticompetitive behavior and be fined millions of dollars by the CRTC. Step 2: ...change?

IT'S HEADED RIGHT FOR US, ALBEIT AT A COMPARATIVELY LEISURELY PACE // 20 min exposure of Andromeda under cloudy urban skies

"Data on mine production, waste, pollution and consumption of water and energy are widely lacking," which can obscure illegal extraction, writes Victor Maus & Tim Werner in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... #darkdata

-ish.

In all fairness, at COP27 we were still debating whether cigarettes stimulate your T-zone on.wsj.com/41lY5Ko

Generative AI is a step on the path to AGI in the same way submarine sandwiches are raising the stakes on submarine warfare

Ten minute exposure of the Triangulum galaxy, where Robert Kennedy Jr. is very much considered a "Milky Way problem."