Brendan Myers, PhD
@fellwater.bsky.social
Author of 25 books in science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction. Professor of philosophy in west Quebec, Canada. I live in a library, next door to a forest.
http://brendanmyers.net
http://brendanmyers.net
Coming later this month: THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN, my latest #sciencefiction novel!
It’s my most personal, expressive book so far. Also the darkest, the most tragic. You’ll love it.
More info: www.brendanmyers.net/the-way-of-w... #writing #books
It’s my most personal, expressive book so far. Also the darkest, the most tragic. You’ll love it.
More info: www.brendanmyers.net/the-way-of-w... #writing #books
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Coming later this month: THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN, my latest #sciencefiction novel!
It’s my most personal, expressive book so far. Also the darkest, the most tragic. You’ll love it.
More info: www.brendanmyers.net/the-way-of-w... #writing #books
It’s my most personal, expressive book so far. Also the darkest, the most tragic. You’ll love it.
More info: www.brendanmyers.net/the-way-of-w... #writing #books
This Week in Modern #Philosophy with me...
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This Week in Modern #Philosophy with me...
Last week in my Modern #Philosophy class, I talked about David Hume, and how he threw a wrench into the gears of the great #Enlightenment project of universal reason.
So, this week, we awaken from our dogmatic slumbers.
So, this week, we awaken from our dogmatic slumbers.
September 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Last week in my Modern #Philosophy class, I talked about David Hume, and how he threw a wrench into the gears of the great #Enlightenment project of universal reason.
So, this week, we awaken from our dogmatic slumbers.
So, this week, we awaken from our dogmatic slumbers.
How I plan to introduce my students to David Hume this week. #teaching #philosophy
September 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
How I plan to introduce my students to David Hume this week. #teaching #philosophy
Walking, dwelling, thinking.
August 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Walking, dwelling, thinking.
My sister Roisin Derbis is quite a wonderful artist. And now she has an Instagram page to share her work. Everybody go look!
Insta: @roisinderbis.art #art
Insta: @roisinderbis.art #art
July 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My sister Roisin Derbis is quite a wonderful artist. And now she has an Instagram page to share her work. Everybody go look!
Insta: @roisinderbis.art #art
Insta: @roisinderbis.art #art
The lilacs in my back yard are blooming.
May 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The lilacs in my back yard are blooming.
Hiking on King Mountain Trail today. Gatineau Park.
May 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Hiking on King Mountain Trail today. Gatineau Park.
Want to read a short story of mine, for free?
"The Golden Mushrooms", available on my Substack:
brendanmyers.substack.com/p/the-golden...
It's an allegorical tale (you'll see!) about a team of space explorers sent to a jungle planet to search for the previous team.
#booksky #sciencefiction
"The Golden Mushrooms", available on my Substack:
brendanmyers.substack.com/p/the-golden...
It's an allegorical tale (you'll see!) about a team of space explorers sent to a jungle planet to search for the previous team.
#booksky #sciencefiction
April 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Want to read a short story of mine, for free?
"The Golden Mushrooms", available on my Substack:
brendanmyers.substack.com/p/the-golden...
It's an allegorical tale (you'll see!) about a team of space explorers sent to a jungle planet to search for the previous team.
#booksky #sciencefiction
"The Golden Mushrooms", available on my Substack:
brendanmyers.substack.com/p/the-golden...
It's an allegorical tale (you'll see!) about a team of space explorers sent to a jungle planet to search for the previous team.
#booksky #sciencefiction
I finished #writing my new #sciencefiction novel! And sent it to the publisher.
When it comes out, THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN will be my 28th book. Can't say yet when that will be, except that the publisher will make an announcement next month.
Writing it took a lot out of me. I need a nap.
When it comes out, THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN will be my 28th book. Can't say yet when that will be, except that the publisher will make an announcement next month.
Writing it took a lot out of me. I need a nap.
April 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I finished #writing my new #sciencefiction novel! And sent it to the publisher.
When it comes out, THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN will be my 28th book. Can't say yet when that will be, except that the publisher will make an announcement next month.
Writing it took a lot out of me. I need a nap.
When it comes out, THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN will be my 28th book. Can't say yet when that will be, except that the publisher will make an announcement next month.
Writing it took a lot out of me. I need a nap.
Here’s me signing the limited-edition hardcover copies of WHISPERLIGHTS for the Kickstarter backers
Photo courtesy of publisher @arcanacreations.bsky.social
Got your copy yet? Reading it yet? What do you think?
(I did not know until I saw this photo that I’m going more grey. But I earned it!)
Photo courtesy of publisher @arcanacreations.bsky.social
Got your copy yet? Reading it yet? What do you think?
(I did not know until I saw this photo that I’m going more grey. But I earned it!)
March 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Here’s me signing the limited-edition hardcover copies of WHISPERLIGHTS for the Kickstarter backers
Photo courtesy of publisher @arcanacreations.bsky.social
Got your copy yet? Reading it yet? What do you think?
(I did not know until I saw this photo that I’m going more grey. But I earned it!)
Photo courtesy of publisher @arcanacreations.bsky.social
Got your copy yet? Reading it yet? What do you think?
(I did not know until I saw this photo that I’m going more grey. But I earned it!)
I had the restaurant almost all to myself tonight.
March 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I had the restaurant almost all to myself tonight.
It’s one of those special nights when I’m home alone, and I’ve poured a glass of wine, and I’m exploring a wonderful little world that you, too, can explore, when the book is published.
Some day I might look back on this moment and say, ‘It was a more innocent time…’
Some day I might look back on this moment and say, ‘It was a more innocent time…’
March 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It’s one of those special nights when I’m home alone, and I’ve poured a glass of wine, and I’m exploring a wonderful little world that you, too, can explore, when the book is published.
Some day I might look back on this moment and say, ‘It was a more innocent time…’
Some day I might look back on this moment and say, ‘It was a more innocent time…’
I spent the afternoon today in the National Gallery. It was more helpful that staying home, for clearing my mind and finding new thoughts.
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I spent the afternoon today in the National Gallery. It was more helpful that staying home, for clearing my mind and finding new thoughts.
In happier news:
You can now pre-order the ebook of my fantasy adventure novel WHISPERIGHTS.
Pre-ordering of paperbacks, and all-Canadian purchase options, to follow soon.
www.amazon.ca/Whisperlight...
#BookSky
You can now pre-order the ebook of my fantasy adventure novel WHISPERIGHTS.
Pre-ordering of paperbacks, and all-Canadian purchase options, to follow soon.
www.amazon.ca/Whisperlight...
#BookSky
February 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In happier news:
You can now pre-order the ebook of my fantasy adventure novel WHISPERIGHTS.
Pre-ordering of paperbacks, and all-Canadian purchase options, to follow soon.
www.amazon.ca/Whisperlight...
#BookSky
You can now pre-order the ebook of my fantasy adventure novel WHISPERIGHTS.
Pre-ordering of paperbacks, and all-Canadian purchase options, to follow soon.
www.amazon.ca/Whisperlight...
#BookSky
Used #bookstores are such magical places. Here's one of the treasures I found today, which I bought purely for the inscription. And now I wonder who these people were, and how this book happened to make its way to Ottawa.
January 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Used #bookstores are such magical places. Here's one of the treasures I found today, which I bought purely for the inscription. And now I wonder who these people were, and how this book happened to make its way to Ottawa.
I bemoan #solitude sometimes. But on other nights, it’s absolutely glorious.
It’s past midnight. I’m alone in the house. I’m playing Lisa Gerrard and Sigur Ros. My imagination carries me to landscapes of love and mystery. I do my best #writing on such nights.
How can I express this to you?
It’s past midnight. I’m alone in the house. I’m playing Lisa Gerrard and Sigur Ros. My imagination carries me to landscapes of love and mystery. I do my best #writing on such nights.
How can I express this to you?
January 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I dreamed about baking bread last night; I used to do that all the time in my 20s. So I made two small loaves today, for the first time in years.
This time, I added some rosemary and a small amount of honey. It smells so nice.
This time, I added some rosemary and a small amount of honey. It smells so nice.
January 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I dreamed about baking bread last night; I used to do that all the time in my 20s. So I made two small loaves today, for the first time in years.
This time, I added some rosemary and a small amount of honey. It smells so nice.
This time, I added some rosemary and a small amount of honey. It smells so nice.
This year's new edition of my Outline History Of Western Thought is now up on my website. Here’s the URL:
www.brendanmyers.net/teaching-res...
This year's new Glossary will follow later.
[Image: Salvador Dali, Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951]
#philosophy #history
www.brendanmyers.net/teaching-res...
This year's new Glossary will follow later.
[Image: Salvador Dali, Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951]
#philosophy #history
January 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This year's new edition of my Outline History Of Western Thought is now up on my website. Here’s the URL:
www.brendanmyers.net/teaching-res...
This year's new Glossary will follow later.
[Image: Salvador Dali, Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951]
#philosophy #history
www.brendanmyers.net/teaching-res...
This year's new Glossary will follow later.
[Image: Salvador Dali, Raphaelesque Head Exploding, 1951]
#philosophy #history
Sometimes I play with the scammers.
And sometimes, they come clean to me when they grasp they’re getting no money. This question featured here tends to instigate either an immediate blocking by the scammer, or the most astonishing conversations about their taskmasters.
And sometimes, they come clean to me when they grasp they’re getting no money. This question featured here tends to instigate either an immediate blocking by the scammer, or the most astonishing conversations about their taskmasters.
January 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Sometimes I play with the scammers.
And sometimes, they come clean to me when they grasp they’re getting no money. This question featured here tends to instigate either an immediate blocking by the scammer, or the most astonishing conversations about their taskmasters.
And sometimes, they come clean to me when they grasp they’re getting no money. This question featured here tends to instigate either an immediate blocking by the scammer, or the most astonishing conversations about their taskmasters.