Robert Runte
@robertrunte.bsky.social
Editor, author, sociologist, educator. (he/him)
My short story, "Murgatroyd and the AI" is up at Reimagined AI. 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.]
The audiobook version of Dave Duncan's The Traitor's Son narrated by David Bendena is now available from all the usual outlets (Koko, Audible, Barns & Noble,spotify, etc.) I was the editor on this book.It's one of Duncan's few pure SF novels www.kobo.com/ca/en/audiob...
The Traitor's Son audiobook by Dave Duncan - Rakuten Kobo
Listen to "The Traitor's Son" by Dave Duncan available from Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by David Bendena. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. "They know the world is dying, b...
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My review of Thomas Trofimuk's Saudade up today at Ottawa Review of Books: www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
Saudade by Thomas Trofimuk
Reviewed by Robert RuntéThis is a novel about the fear of death, of loss and longing, of aimless searching.Wait, wait! Don’t leave! This is not the sort of tedious, depressing literary novel about dea...
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My review of As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories is up at Ottawa Review of Books www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
As the Earth Dreams edited by Terese Mason Pierre
Reviewed by Robert RuntéEditor Terese Mason Pierre has collected ten fabulous (in both senses of the word) stories by Black Canadians into what has instantly become one of my all-time favourite anthol...
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Attended (via Google Meets) the launch of David Gerrold's short story anthology, "Shadows & Reflections: Diving in the Sea of Time". from Donovan Street Press Inc. this evening. Great to see, can't wait to read. (now available for pre-order): www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Refl...?
Shadows & Reflections: Diving in the Sea of Time
Shadows & Reflections: Diving in the Sea of Time eBook : Gerrold, David, Nayman, Ira : Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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My review of "Borderlandz: Tales from the Edges" by Douglas Smith is up at the Ottawa Review of Books: www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
Borderlanz: Tales from the Edges by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Robert RuntéA four-time winner of the Aurora Award (for Canadian speculative fiction and fantasy) and shortlisted for the Sunburst Award (a more literary, juried Canadian Speculative Ficti...
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My review of Matthew Hughes' memoir, "A Guy Just Passing Through" is up at Ottawa Review of Books: www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
My review of Finnian Burnett's "Redshirts Sometimes Survive" is up at Ottawa Review of Books. www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
Redshirts Sometimes Survive by Finnian Burnett
Reviewed by Robert RuntéFinnian Burnett is one of those writers who explodes on the scene apparently overnight. A prominent figure in the Canada Writes online community, Burnett is suddenly a keynote ...
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My flash fiction, "Kill Switch Override", was published today in Infocalypse #1. www.infocalypse.press/issue-one/
Issue One
Thank you to all of our inaugural contributors for helping us to launch!
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. She was also a prize-winning poet.
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Of possible interest to anyone thinking about trying to write flash fiction. Karen Schauber was the person who got me into, and published my first, flash fiction.
My 485-word flash fiction, "The Yard Sale", is up at Sudden Fiction. yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
My short story, "Grandfather's Birthday Barbeque" has been reprinted in Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue (JayHenge Publishing). Thanks to Jessica Augustsson for including it. I think this is the Amazon link: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0G57TDPM...
@bsky.app My review of Emily Weedon's Hemo Sapiens now up at the Ottawa Review of Books www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
Hemo Sapiens by Emily A. Weedon
Reviewed by Robert RuntéOccasionally, 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...
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RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐
My short story, "Schrodenger's Train," is up today at Metastellar Science Fiction. www.metastellar.com/fiction/schr...
Schrodenger’s Train
How can you tell if you’re being ridiculous, paranoid, or if there really is someone after you?
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My review of Starship Librarians, edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell, from Tyche Books is now up at Ottawa Review of Books. www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
Starship Librarians edited by Shannon Allen and JR Campbell
Reviewed by Robert RuntéWhen 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 coll...
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My 50-word story, "The Experimental Writer," is up at Sudden Flash. (And yes, he's an example of an unreliable narrator.) yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
The Experimental Writer
These editors aren't up for something really fresh.
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Michael Antman’s Cherry Whip: the 20th Anniversary Edition is now available from Donovan Street Press! Michael Antman's prose is superb and incisive, conveying the reader smoothly into the depths of young jazz prodigy Hiroshi's neurotic but charming mind. #bookrelease books2read.com/u/4DBjkO
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Cherry Whip by Michael Antman
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My short story, "Split Decision", has been reprinted and is up for free reading at Twin Flame Literary as of Sept 14. twinflameliterary.com/split-decisi... The story originally appeared in Tesseracts 15, 2012. This is the story's fourth appearance, but the first time available online for free.
Pleased my flash fiction, "Iceberg" has been reprinted in Polar Borealis #35. PB is available for free download from polarborealis.ca/currentback-...
BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers
My Review of Sorry, Not Sorry: An Unapologetic Celebration of Canadian Life Through Story, edited by Shawn Bird, is up at Ottawa Review of Books. www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...
My drabble, "The Perfect Storm," was reprinted today in Flash Flood (an annual online event in which a piece of flash fiction is published every 15 minutes for 24 hours) flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/search?updat...
Dr. Robert Runte @DrRunte My flash, "Fami's Dissertation Defence" is out today on AntiSF Radio Show. This is the 13th appearance of Fami. My thanks to editor Ion Newcombe and narrator Ed Errington. antisf.libsyn.com Fami's Dissertation Defence originally appeared in Ripples in Space, Spring 2020.
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AntipodeanSF podcast/radio show is devoted to the presentation of flash speculative fiction stories (science fiction, fantasy, and horror). AntiSF is where speculative fiction belongs -- downside-up!
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My drabble, “Perfect Storm", will be reprinted on National Flash Fiction Day at 5:10 a.m. (BST) on 14 June 2025. You don't have to get up then to see it, though: the posting is permanent. "Perfect Storm" was previously published by Fatal Flaw (2020) and ScribesMicro (2022).
