Jason Pchajek

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Just ONE MORE DAY until THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology launches on Kickstarter! We put a lot of love into this deluxe edition hardcover, so consider backing the project starting tomorrow, NOVEMBER 13, at 9am EST 🍄

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My great-uncle loves telling the story about sneaking onto the train between Winnipeg and Winnipeg Beach. Some day soon I can do the same perfectly legally 🤣

Jokes aside, this would be a amazing. We need light rail in Manitoba. We need commuter trains. It IS viable.

An amazing piece of art to celebrate one of the crowing achievements in Winnipeg hockey.

I know there's a site online that tracks all the murals in the city, but I'd love to go out and photograph them all.

This has already undoubtedly impacted my current WIP (space pirate narrative with an intergalactic mirror of the East India Trading Co) and I'm super excited to explore it.

We go to a planet, impact the ecology, and potentially come across beings with entire cultures, languages, histories, and ways of living that are new to us. How do we operate in that environment? What choices are made? What right do we have to 'colonize' that world to being with? Interesting stuff!

Something I always thought was missing from large sci-fi universes (Star Wars, Mass Effect, Halo, etc) was a serious look into that way colonialism would work across galactic lines or when butting up against other intelligent beings. The closest we got (in my view) is the Drell/Hanar in Mass Effect.

This Thursday on #TheHockeyShow on 101.5 UMFM, @jasonpchajek.bsky.social and I welcome award-winning journalist @molinaripgh.bsky.social to the show to chat about his new book, The Pittsburgh Penguins: An Illustrated Timeline published by Reedy Press! Lots of Penguins talk at 5:30pm CT on Oct 30!

Happy birthday @adrianmgibson.bsky.social! Hope you have a stellar day!

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.

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Canada West: Men's Hockey - Calgary vs Manitoba | CBC Gem Watch the University of Calgary Dinos face the University of Manitoba Bisons in Canada West men's hockey action from the Wayne Fleming Arena in Winnipeg.

Just learned that I'm going to be LIVE on CBC Gem this Saturday when I call the U of M Bisons vs. the U of C Dinos in Canada West Men's Hockey! So amazing that CBC continues to support university sports in our country. Tune in!

GO HERD!🦬 #Hockey #CanCon #USports

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I’m so happy to be writing sci-fi again. There’s something about it that scratches a particular itch in my brain.

Case in point, when I explain the Arachni come from colony of interconnected starships called the Weaved Hegemony, with next to no gravity, my brain goes “Hell yeah, more.”

#BookSky💙📚🪐

Remember, chasing your dreams is a radical act. Writing books and making art are expressions of optimism and faith in human nature. Conceiving of better worlds makes them possible.

Current WIP is a space pirate adventure (golden age of piracy in space, with climate fiction elements) and had to think up an alien species that evolved to work well in zero-g environments. Ultimately settled on alien spiders. Oh what fun world-building this will make for 🤩

#BookySky💙📚🪐

Bounty Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within the sublev…

Saw a report by CBC that Canadians are focused on buying books written by Canadian authors. Well how about a climate fiction and cyberpunk story set IN Canada, written by a Canadian?

Interested? Check out my novel BOUNTY! Sequel coming soon 👀

#BookSky💙📚🪐

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Back to the query mines with a revised version of A House of Wolves. Streamlined the narrative, cut a storyline, and added a new chapter that my fiancée absolutely adored.

Keep your fingers crossed for me y'all!!

#BookySky💙📚

One of the best books I’ve read so far in 2025. Actually could not put it down until I was done!

Go get a copy today!!

AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History "These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Every once in a while I pop in to Amazon to check on BOUNTY, and today I learned there's only one copy left!? What!? They JUST got it restocked...wild.

Seems my fellow canucks love a sci-fi story set in their own backyard. Who knew!

#BookSky💙📚🪐

Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.

A listing on ultra-fast-fashion e-commerce site Shein used an AI-generated image of Luigi Mangione to sell a floral button-down t-shirt.

🔗 www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...

Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: Cyberpunk and ecofiction might be genres made for each other. Jason Pcha…

ICYMI - Before heading off to Worldcon, my interview with Night Beats dropped, where I talked all about my novel BOUNTY! #BookSky💙📚🪐

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Join co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly as they recap their adventures at @seattlein2025.org, from yummy meals and hanging out with friends to BarCon, moderating panels and hosting their epic live episode of the podcast

Watch it HERE: youtu.be/aeFUEa-h7js?...

To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter - Lightspeed Magazine Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they were sure their credentials were correct.

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨

This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜

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I tell my friends I love them all the time and don't guard my emotions, I've teared up recording the show even if it's just about the computer because I give a shit about the work and how people are treated. You don't have to hide how you feel and those who try to make you stop are weak

Oh I’ve got many around where I am, and in my family too haha. Glad to hear you enjoyed the panel! It was a great discussion! Makes me excited for my next chance to be at Worldcon.

🪐 Speaking of which, I have to say Bounty from @jasonpchajek.bsky.social has one of the best opening lines I’ve seen. (No, I’m not telling; go check it out for yourself.) never did get the hang of pronouncing his name, though. The “Pch” combination isn’t among my known consonant combinations.

Hey! Glad you enjoyed it! (Also if it helps, my last name is pronounced Pay-Jack in English, so you don't have to worry about the Pch problem haha)

Landed in Vancouver and was sent this.

I always have to pinch myself when this happens because I grew up reading the @winnipegfreepress.com

And speaking of…if any publishers want a story where a “retired” outlaw robs a magic professor of a powerful magical artifact…drop me a line. #BookSky💙📚

We were supposed to fly Air Canada back, and despite the headache last night became trying to get a last-minute trip home, I’m not going to let that make me think ill of the union.

Air Canada knew the government would step in and used the situation to try and make us mad at the union.