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Peter Chiykowski

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in Toronto, Canada

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Peter Chiykowski is an award-winning writer, editor and cartoonist. His webcomic series Rock, Paper, Cynic won him the Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2014 and 2018. His first collection of comics, The HMS Bad Idea, debuted as a #1 new graphic novel anthology on the Amazon international bestseller list and is now available wherever silly books are sold.

His work as a humorist and author of short fiction and poetry has appeared or made mention in Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, MTV.com, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Best Canadian Poetry and Best Canadian Speculative Writing, and he has spoken about writing and publishing at conventions, conferences and classrooms coast to co ...more

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	The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales 4.23 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postcards From Impossible Worlds: The Collected Shortest Story by Peter Chiykowski (Goodreads Author), Robert Shearman, Helen Marshall (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The H.M.S. Bad Idea by Peter Chiykowski (Goodreads Author), Zach Weinersmith (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Rob DenBleyker (Illustrator) 4.47 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing by Sandra Kasturi (Editor), Halli Villegas (Editor), Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2013 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Gwendolyn Clare (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2013 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rudy Rucker (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (The Imaginarium Series) by Sandra Kasturi (Editor), Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story Engine: 101 Postcard-Sized Stories by Peter Chiykowski (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sonya Ballantyne, L.X. Beckett 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be A Turtle and Other Secrets to a Happy Life by Peter Chiykowski (Goodreads Author), Nick Seluk (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is It Canon? by Peter Chiykowski (Goodreads Author), Aaron Lenk 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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