Ben Ghan "The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits" Book Launch at Another Story Bookshop
Schedule
Thu Jun 20 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Another Story Bookshop | Toronto, ON
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Join Ben Ghan and special guests Victoria Hetherington (Autonomy), Daniel Sarah Karasik (Disobedience), and Andrew F Sullivan (The Marigold) for the launch of The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits!**Please note this is a masked event.**
A gorgeously complex work of literary speculative fiction that spans centuries The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits starts in 2014 with a winged alien sowing the seeds of a strange forest on the moon. The novel then moves through humanity’s colonization of the moon and its consequences, onto a war with alien beings within a spacefaring whale, a cyborg mind that sleeps for hundreds of years after sheltering the city of Toronto from the worst of the war and finally a recreation of humanity. Ghan poses thoughtful questions about artificial intelligence, humanity's quest for the stars and ecological destruction in this wide-ranging story, which is held together equally by beautiful writing and deft characterization. The end result is an ambitious debut that leaves the reader contemplating many amazing possibilities for the future of our world.
Ben Berman Ghan is a writer and editor from Toronto, Canada, whose prose and poetry have been published in Clarkesworld magazine, Strange Horizons, the Blasted Tree Publishing Co., the /tƐmz/ Review and others. His previous works include the short story collection What We See in the Smoke. He now lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta, where he is a Ph.D. student in English literature at the University of Calgary. You can find him at www.inkstainedwreck.ca.
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Where is it happening?
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, ON M6R 2M6, Canada,Toronto, OntarioEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
