Grant Canterbury

@dendroica@ecoevo.social
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Ornithology. Ecology. Taxonomy. Pacific Northwest birding.
Longer-form essays and project updates at https://canterburia.blogspot.com.
I write natural history, fiction (SF and fantasy), and poetry.
My novelette "Pen Pal" recently appeared on the science fiction podcast Escape Pod: listen at https://escapepod.org/2022/10/13/escape-pod-858-pen-pal-part-1/
and
https://escapepod.org/2022/10/20/escape-po
Ongoing project: learning German by translating the ballads of Goethe and Schiller to English!
Bloghttps://canterburia.blogspot.com
This evening in our neighborhood, this photogenic Barred Owl came in close and relaxed on a low branch.
#Birding #Oregon
"To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and.. permitted me to examine artifacts surviving so many centuries of futurity, and most especially to those who have allowed me to visit and photograph the era’s few extant buildings, I am truly grateful." #GeneWolfe
Beeeees!!
Woot! Super pleased to find my author copy of Our Dust Earth in today's mail! Nice to see my story House Brilliant out there in print, and looking forward to reading the rest of the stories in the collection.
The sound of a flowering cherry tree filled with a slew of finches! They are mostly Pine Siskins, but if your ears are good (i.e. better than mine) you might be able to detect American Goldfinch, Lesser Goldfinch, or House Finch, all of which were also present moving among the flittering mob. #Birding
"Our Dust Earth" our newest anthology featuring 19 stories and a miniRPG is now available for preorder (copies should ship sometime around the first week of April) http://aanpress.com/aanorder.html#ode #sff #dyingearth #rpg #sf
air and nothingness press - our catalog of books

the air and nothingness press was created to explore book arts and graphic design with an emphasis on limited edition hand-made livre d artiste books and editions of poetry, fantasy and science fiction. we also design and publish on-demand collections of poetry

This very noisy Red-shouldered Hawk perched close enough for me to get a nice view this morning at Greenway Park. Always a pleasure to see one of these fellows!
#Birding #Oregon
Hawaii's endemic birds need your help to survive. With the federal government cutting off funding for important conservation effort your assistance is more important than ever. The current administration wants to condemn these birds to extinction, either through malice or incompetence, but we can save them! #birds #birding #nature
https://kindest.com/115373-urgent-support-needed-for-maui-forest-bird-recovery-project
Urgent Support Needed for Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project

Click here to support Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, part of Na Koa Manu Conservation Inc..

Last Campaign post: The final 24 hours for “Our Dust Earth" a hybrid "Dying Earth" SF anthology & mini TTRPG. The KS campaign is 91% towards our stretch goal adding 6 additional authors to the TOC ($682 left). Info on backing - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52625019/our-dust-earth-anthology #sf #sff #rpg #kickstarter
Update: this cool SF anthology is _so nearly_ funded but could use some help in the next few days to put it over the top. My story House Brilliant features relics of deep time and idiomatic translations of four human and machine languages of the far future. It was fun to write!
#ttrpg #scifi @aanpress
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52625019/our-dust-earth-anthology