Description:
A gorgeous work of literary speculative fiction spanning centuries The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits starts in 2014 with a winged alien sowing the seeds of a strange forest on the moon. Ghan poses thoughtful questions about artificial intelligence, humanity's quest for the stars and ecological destruction in this wide-ranging story.
Brief description:
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books 2024), as well as Behold the Dead (Anstruther Press 2025), Visitation Seeds (845 Press 2020) and What We See in the Smoke (Crowsnest Books 2019). His prose, poetry and criticism have previously been published in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan and Ancillary Review of Books, and have been reprinted in such anthologies as Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction and Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth. His work has won the Foreword INDIES Silver Medal for Science Fiction, was longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and has been a semifinalist for the Small Spec Book Award for Science Fiction. He is a grateful recipient of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity's Science Fiction Writers' Residence and is a PhD Candidate in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, where he lives with his partner and two cats.
Review Quotes:
"Ghan is an expert craftsperson of prose. The language in The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is beautifully and meticulously constructed around these themes, even to the point of obsession, in how it circles, examines, and re-articulates the core ideas of the book."
--Eden Kupermintz "Ancillary Review of Books"