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	Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts by Derwin Mak, Lucas K. Law (Editor), Mahtab Narsimhan (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Volume One (Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection Book 1) by Dustin Bilyk (Goodreads Author), Kevin M. Folliard (Goodreads Author), Gustavo Bondoni (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 58 ratings — 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
	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
	The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings by Karen Schauber (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Jim Waddington (Foreword), Sue Waddington (Foreword) 4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2019	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
	Playground of Lost Toys (The Exile Book of) by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ursula Pflug (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rhonda Eikamp (Contributor) 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Queens in Wonderland by Theresa Halvorsen (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Chris Bannor (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Alicia K. Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — 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
	Other Times and Places by Joe Mahoney (Goodreads Author), Robert Runte (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — 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
	Tesseracts 5 by Robert Runte (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Yves Meynard (Editor), John Park (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1996 — 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
	Prairie Starport: Stories in Celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey by Rhonda Parrish (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Timothy J. Anderson, Greg Bechtel (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 9 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
	AI, Robot by Jessica Augustsson (Goodreads Author), Devan Barlow, Jenna Moore 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 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

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My short story, "Murgatroyd and the AI" reprinted

My short story, "Murgatroyd and the AI" is up at Reimagined AI. https://www.reimaginedai.org/stories

The story is reprinted from the “Heavens to Murgatroyd”, Shawn Bird (ed.) Lintusen Press, March 2024.

The cover photo is Pepper, an actual emotional support robot from Aldebaran Robotics.

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Robert Runte rated a book liked it Shared World by Jonathan Ball (Goodreads Author)	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
(This review includes a review of "Kyber; Shared World in second half] Khyber is a collection of sword and sorcery stories by Winnipeg author, Chadwick Ginther. The stories all share the setting of the great city of Khyber, though a city with its best ...more
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Khyber is a collection of sword and sorcery stories by Winnipeg author, Chadwick Ginther. The stories all share the setting of the great city of Khyber, though a city with its best days behind it. Think Terry Pratchett’s Ankh-Morpork without Lord Vet ...more
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Robert Runte rated a book really liked it Zebra Merdian and Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole (Goodreads Author)	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
I try to cover as much of the range of Canadian speculative fiction as I can, reading across its many subgenres. Zebra Meridian and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Geoffrey Cole which one could loosely classify as clifi, since most ...more
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Robert Runte rated a book really liked it Lost Lives: Even More Sci-Fi Adventure with a sense of humor! (Get Lost Saga Book 3) by Noah Chinn (Goodreads Author)	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
Lost Lives is the third book in the Get Lost Saga, currently a trilogy. Chinn has hinted he might write more books in the Get Lost universe, albeit with different characters and a completely new mystery/storyline. I, for one, would love that. My job, ...more
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Robert Runte rated a book really liked it Muscle and Other Stories: Tales of Crime and Mystery by a Modern Master by Matthew Hughes (Goodreads Author)	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
Hughes is one of Canada’s best fantasy and science fiction writers, but as he confesses in the foreword to this collection, that has all been a mistake. What he really wanted to be was a crime writer. He was already selling to Alfred Hitchcock Magazi ...more
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When I first selected this collection for review, I had assumed it would be an example of cozy SF. I imagined quiet little stories about the library of the future: massive collections of all knowledge like in ancient Alexandria, or a compact, one-roo ...more
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Occasionally, one should judge a book by its cover. The cover of Hemo Sapiens is a sophisticated, modern take on art nouveau that tells us this is from a sophisticated literary press (Dundurn) with refined tastes one can trust. I fully confess that w ...more
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