Semifinalist for the Small Spec Book Awards in Science Fiction
Longlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
Silver Medal Winner for the 2024 Foreword INDIES Award for Science Fiction
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“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
“Cinematic, poetic, and overflowing with invention, The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is a marvel — a heartfelt exploration of what it means to be alive, and a love story eons and galaxies in scale. I am in awe of Ben Ghan’s imagination.”
– Kim Fu, author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
“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
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 space-going 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 re-creation of humanity. Ghan poses thoughtful questions about artificial intelligence, humanities 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.
Ben Berman Ghan 