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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.

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"""This book reads like a technicolour acid trip, confusion and chaos in the best way, difficulty finding your footing, excited to see what is next. It also has incredibly poetic prose and big, imaginative ideas and could be called a genre-defying piece of work, horror and sci-fi, literary, and dystopian. This is a great read for anyone who finds themselves constantly asking, “where is this world going?” and feeling worried about it."" * Miramichi Reader * ""Shot through with love stories, anger at authoritarian cruelty, and surreal and striking visions, it’s an elegiac and ruminative novel – a strange but moving meditation on death and change and what comes after."" * Locus magazine * ""I’ve found myself returning to it again and again, flipping through the pages in search of new details, rereading passages that once mystified me. It is a novel that rewards a second read with a much deeper appreciation of its complexity."" -- Libby O’Neil * Full Stop *"

"""Expansive, imaginative and thrumming with volatile life, The Year Shall Run Like Rabbits is a showcase for Ghan's immersive and elegant prose to depict worlds beyond our own. Toronto will never be the same."" - Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold ""Sentient holograms, cyborgs, moon colonies, a dreary future-Toronto - Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits reads like a mythical, cyberpunk, posthuman fever dream. This novel is for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu and Omar El Akkad's American War."" - John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of My Volcano and Bad Houses ""There is a restless inventiveness to the book: each story introduces a new conceit, a new twist or speculative element.[...] Ghan is as good at character as he is at worldbuilding. What We See in the Smoke is filled with a motley collection of people, androids and clones whose emotional lives are as carefully limned as the details of their contexts."" - The Temz Review"

"""There is a restless inventiveness to the book: each story introduces a new conceit, a new twist or speculative element.[...] Ghan is as good at character as he is at worldbuilding. What We See in the Smoke is filled with a motley collection of people, androids and clones whose emotional lives are as carefully limned as the details of their contexts."" - The Temz Review"

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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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