The world we know is coming to an end. How will we connect in the strange and frightening one that’s coming to take its place?

What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next.

The novel leaps across the boundaries of time and space, as present and future Torontonians search for meaning, connection, and love in a city that grows more beautiful and frightening as its familiar characteristics fade away.

A musician is caught in an endless time loop unable to reach those he loves, two broke and desperate men plan a heist of a cannibal auction, a detective with sinister proclivities hunts for a criminal who is stealing dreams, and a college student searches for his brother in the hours before a nuclear war. All of these and more lead to a world where only rich cyborgs or the homeless remain, where teleportation has made crime impossible, and where city-sized spaceships are maintained by strange creatures while planet Earth itself is left behind.

Want a copy for yourself? Head over to the store, where I will do my best to keep track of all the places you can find and buy the book! If you want to pre-order an early copy of the book, you can do so over at Crowsnest Books, and feel free to check to add and share the book on Goodreads if that’s your thing.

If you are interested in my work, you can check out my CV for a complete list of my publications – where you can click on links to some of my short stories, essays, and poems.