Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦
@ourmankoto.bsky.social
SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦
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Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
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Vive la Canada (literature)!
Rhonda Parrish and Tyche Books have a new anthology coming in the new year.
For now, all you need to do is hit the "notify me on launch" button so that you don't miss this FASCINATING (insert groan soundtrack) anthology.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Rhonda Parrish and Tyche Books have a new anthology coming in the new year.
For now, all you need to do is hit the "notify me on launch" button so that you don't miss this FASCINATING (insert groan soundtrack) anthology.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Coming soon: Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
www.kickstarter.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Vive la Canada (literature)!
Rhonda Parrish and Tyche Books have a new anthology coming in the new year.
For now, all you need to do is hit the "notify me on launch" button so that you don't miss this FASCINATING (insert groan soundtrack) anthology.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Rhonda Parrish and Tyche Books have a new anthology coming in the new year.
For now, all you need to do is hit the "notify me on launch" button so that you don't miss this FASCINATING (insert groan soundtrack) anthology.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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If it helps with the decision, there's a Valorverse story in here. Not Torin, but Valorverse. (Previously published in Last-Ditch, a Zombies Need Brains anthology)
Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three: Kotowych, Stephen: 9781738187539: Books - Amazon.ca
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November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If it helps with the decision, there's a Valorverse story in here. Not Torin, but Valorverse. (Previously published in Last-Ditch, a Zombies Need Brains anthology)
Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three: Kotowych, Stephen: 9781738187539: Books - Amazon.ca
a.co
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?
Do you know the old Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish best served cold?
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Do you know the old Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish best served cold?
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Life, uhh, finds a way, Charlie Brown.
Many Who Die Deserve Life. Can You Give It to Them, Charlie Brown?
Okay. Yes. We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Charlie Brown, that the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Life, uhh, finds a way, Charlie Brown.
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
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SKULL X BONES, the new #SFF #anthology from @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social, featuring interior art by DH @gregoriusu.bsky.social & Ariel Guzman, & great stories by 14 fabulous authors, will be released Dec. 14. Just in time for holiday giving! Pre-order now at .
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SKULL X BONES, the new #SFF #anthology from @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social, featuring interior art by DH @gregoriusu.bsky.social & Ariel Guzman, & great stories by 14 fabulous authors, will be released Dec. 14. Just in time for holiday giving! Pre-order now at .
Post a famous bathroom scene
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
You see, I am Pontifex and I'd like to say hello
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
You see, I am Pontifex and I'd like to say hello
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free...
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At Edmonton City Hall this afternoon for the Holodomor Commemoration - an event with a very real resonance this year, with Ukraine again under Russian threat. #yeg #yegcc #Holodomor #Ukraine #cdnpoli
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
At Edmonton City Hall this afternoon for the Holodomor Commemoration - an event with a very real resonance this year, with Ukraine again under Russian threat. #yeg #yegcc #Holodomor #Ukraine #cdnpoli
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Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Having down time and rest should be more of a badge of honour than being busy.
Most days, I wake with a song in my head. Today, it was this one
Killing Floor
YouTube video by Howlin' Wolf - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Most days, I wake with a song in my head. Today, it was this one
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JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield
JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield
WASHINGTON D.C. - American Vice President JD Vance has posted online, slamming the country of Canada's economic and immigration policies, which insiders reveal stems from hurt feelings over being sexu...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield
What my theory presupposes is that this CBC newscaster is just a really big fan of Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales. Who wore it better?
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What my theory presupposes is that this CBC newscaster is just a really big fan of Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales. Who wore it better?
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Policy should focus not on fertility targets but on how “societies can remain prosperous, equitable & sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging & population decline. That is a question better aligned with what we actually know—and with the uncertainties we must acknowledge”
The demographic future that we do not know about
The demographic future of the planet has rarely been as questioned as it is today. For much of the 20th century, the demographic transition theory provided a clear narrative: With modernization and de...
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Policy should focus not on fertility targets but on how “societies can remain prosperous, equitable & sustainable under conditions of low fertility, population aging & population decline. That is a question better aligned with what we actually know—and with the uncertainties we must acknowledge”
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
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This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is just to say
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
I have prompted your LLM
with poetry
and broken it
Forgive me
it was so funny
I couldn’t not
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Someone made a chart of me every time I get online and read the news.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Someone made a chart of me every time I get online and read the news.