Jason Pchajek
@jasonpchajek.bsky.social
| He/him | Canadian Cli-Fi Author | Co-Host of The Hockey Show | Winnipegger | Author of “BOUNTY” available now from Turnstone Press | 🇨🇦📚
Website: https://www.jasonpchajekwriting.com/
Website: https://www.jasonpchajekwriting.com/
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Jason Pchajek
@jasonpchajek.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Bounty
Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within the sublev…
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Finally here, so let me introduce myself! I’m Jason Pchajek, a Canadian author of sci-fi and fantasy. My debut novel Bounty was published in 2023, and its sequel is on the way!
If you’re looking for a high octane cyberpunk, cli-fi, thriller, check out Bounty today! www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
If you’re looking for a high octane cyberpunk, cli-fi, thriller, check out Bounty today! www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
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LAUNCH DAAAAAAY!!! THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology goes live on Kickstarter in ONE HOUR! Go support our mad, fungi-fueled crowdfunding project starting at 9am EST 🍄
Back The Book of Spores HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Back The Book of Spores HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
LAUNCH DAAAAAAY!!! THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology goes live on Kickstarter in ONE HOUR! Go support our mad, fungi-fueled crowdfunding project starting at 9am EST 🍄
Back The Book of Spores HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Back The Book of Spores HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
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Just ONE MORE DAY until THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology launches on Kickstarter! We put a lot of love into this deluxe edition hardcover, so consider backing the project starting tomorrow, NOVEMBER 13, at 9am EST 🍄
Follow our pre-launch page HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Follow our pre-launch page HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just ONE MORE DAY until THE BOOK OF SPORES anthology launches on Kickstarter! We put a lot of love into this deluxe edition hardcover, so consider backing the project starting tomorrow, NOVEMBER 13, at 9am EST 🍄
Follow our pre-launch page HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
Follow our pre-launch page HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
My great-uncle loves telling the story about sneaking onto the train between Winnipeg and Winnipeg Beach. Some day soon I can do the same perfectly legally 🤣
Jokes aside, this would be a amazing. We need light rail in Manitoba. We need commuter trains. It IS viable.
Jokes aside, this would be a amazing. We need light rail in Manitoba. We need commuter trains. It IS viable.
Public discussions have sparked the idea of building a potential commuter rail corridor between Winnipeg and Gimli as Manitoba’s railway relocation talks continue.
Commuter line proposed in rail relocation talks
Public discussions have sparked the idea of building a potential commuter rail corridor between Winnipeg and Gimli as Manitoba’s railway relocation talks continue.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My great-uncle loves telling the story about sneaking onto the train between Winnipeg and Winnipeg Beach. Some day soon I can do the same perfectly legally 🤣
Jokes aside, this would be a amazing. We need light rail in Manitoba. We need commuter trains. It IS viable.
Jokes aside, this would be a amazing. We need light rail in Manitoba. We need commuter trains. It IS viable.
An amazing piece of art to celebrate one of the crowing achievements in Winnipeg hockey.
I know there's a site online that tracks all the murals in the city, but I'd love to go out and photograph them all.
I know there's a site online that tracks all the murals in the city, but I'd love to go out and photograph them all.
‘This is where it all happened”: Winnipeg mural honours three-time Stanley Cup champs
‘This is where it all happened”: Winnipeg mural honours three-time Stanley Cup champs
A new mural is paying tribute to a legendary Winnipeg hockey team, steps away from where history was made.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
An amazing piece of art to celebrate one of the crowing achievements in Winnipeg hockey.
I know there's a site online that tracks all the murals in the city, but I'd love to go out and photograph them all.
I know there's a site online that tracks all the murals in the city, but I'd love to go out and photograph them all.
Something I always thought was missing from large sci-fi universes (Star Wars, Mass Effect, Halo, etc) was a serious look into that way colonialism would work across galactic lines or when butting up against other intelligent beings. The closest we got (in my view) is the Drell/Hanar in Mass Effect.
October 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Something I always thought was missing from large sci-fi universes (Star Wars, Mass Effect, Halo, etc) was a serious look into that way colonialism would work across galactic lines or when butting up against other intelligent beings. The closest we got (in my view) is the Drell/Hanar in Mass Effect.
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This Thursday on #TheHockeyShow on 101.5 UMFM, @jasonpchajek.bsky.social and I welcome award-winning journalist @molinaripgh.bsky.social to the show to chat about his new book, The Pittsburgh Penguins: An Illustrated Timeline published by Reedy Press! Lots of Penguins talk at 5:30pm CT on Oct 30!
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This Thursday on #TheHockeyShow on 101.5 UMFM, @jasonpchajek.bsky.social and I welcome award-winning journalist @molinaripgh.bsky.social to the show to chat about his new book, The Pittsburgh Penguins: An Illustrated Timeline published by Reedy Press! Lots of Penguins talk at 5:30pm CT on Oct 30!
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Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
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🍄 SALE REMINDER 🍄
A friendly fungal reminder that the Mushroom Blues eBook is ON SALE for $0.99 until Oct. 18th! As well, the audiobook is currently 80% off, so less than $5 for a 15-hour audio adventure!!!
Get the EBOOK: amzn.to/3VoOBNF
Get the AUDIOBOOK: audible.com/pd/B0DR367658
A friendly fungal reminder that the Mushroom Blues eBook is ON SALE for $0.99 until Oct. 18th! As well, the audiobook is currently 80% off, so less than $5 for a 15-hour audio adventure!!!
Get the EBOOK: amzn.to/3VoOBNF
Get the AUDIOBOOK: audible.com/pd/B0DR367658
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🍄 SALE REMINDER 🍄
A friendly fungal reminder that the Mushroom Blues eBook is ON SALE for $0.99 until Oct. 18th! As well, the audiobook is currently 80% off, so less than $5 for a 15-hour audio adventure!!!
Get the EBOOK: amzn.to/3VoOBNF
Get the AUDIOBOOK: audible.com/pd/B0DR367658
A friendly fungal reminder that the Mushroom Blues eBook is ON SALE for $0.99 until Oct. 18th! As well, the audiobook is currently 80% off, so less than $5 for a 15-hour audio adventure!!!
Get the EBOOK: amzn.to/3VoOBNF
Get the AUDIOBOOK: audible.com/pd/B0DR367658
Just learned that I'm going to be LIVE on CBC Gem this Saturday when I call the U of M Bisons vs. the U of C Dinos in Canada West Men's Hockey! So amazing that CBC continues to support university sports in our country. Tune in!
GO HERD!🦬 #Hockey #CanCon #USports
gem.cbc.ca/live-event/5...
GO HERD!🦬 #Hockey #CanCon #USports
gem.cbc.ca/live-event/5...
Canada West: Men's Hockey - Calgary vs Manitoba | CBC Gem
Watch the University of Calgary Dinos face the University of Manitoba Bisons in Canada West men's hockey action from the Wayne Fleming Arena in Winnipeg.
gem.cbc.ca
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Just learned that I'm going to be LIVE on CBC Gem this Saturday when I call the U of M Bisons vs. the U of C Dinos in Canada West Men's Hockey! So amazing that CBC continues to support university sports in our country. Tune in!
GO HERD!🦬 #Hockey #CanCon #USports
gem.cbc.ca/live-event/5...
GO HERD!🦬 #Hockey #CanCon #USports
gem.cbc.ca/live-event/5...
I’m so happy to be writing sci-fi again. There’s something about it that scratches a particular itch in my brain.
Case in point, when I explain the Arachni come from colony of interconnected starships called the Weaved Hegemony, with next to no gravity, my brain goes “Hell yeah, more.”
#BookSky💙📚🪐
Case in point, when I explain the Arachni come from colony of interconnected starships called the Weaved Hegemony, with next to no gravity, my brain goes “Hell yeah, more.”
#BookSky💙📚🪐
Current WIP is a space pirate adventure (golden age of piracy in space, with climate fiction elements) and had to think up an alien species that evolved to work well in zero-g environments. Ultimately settled on alien spiders. Oh what fun world-building this will make for 🤩
#BookySky💙📚🪐
#BookySky💙📚🪐
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m so happy to be writing sci-fi again. There’s something about it that scratches a particular itch in my brain.
Case in point, when I explain the Arachni come from colony of interconnected starships called the Weaved Hegemony, with next to no gravity, my brain goes “Hell yeah, more.”
#BookSky💙📚🪐
Case in point, when I explain the Arachni come from colony of interconnected starships called the Weaved Hegemony, with next to no gravity, my brain goes “Hell yeah, more.”
#BookSky💙📚🪐
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Remember, chasing your dreams is a radical act. Writing books and making art are expressions of optimism and faith in human nature. Conceiving of better worlds makes them possible.
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember, chasing your dreams is a radical act. Writing books and making art are expressions of optimism and faith in human nature. Conceiving of better worlds makes them possible.
Current WIP is a space pirate adventure (golden age of piracy in space, with climate fiction elements) and had to think up an alien species that evolved to work well in zero-g environments. Ultimately settled on alien spiders. Oh what fun world-building this will make for 🤩
#BookySky💙📚🪐
#BookySky💙📚🪐
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Current WIP is a space pirate adventure (golden age of piracy in space, with climate fiction elements) and had to think up an alien species that evolved to work well in zero-g environments. Ultimately settled on alien spiders. Oh what fun world-building this will make for 🤩
#BookySky💙📚🪐
#BookySky💙📚🪐
Saw a report by CBC that Canadians are focused on buying books written by Canadian authors. Well how about a climate fiction and cyberpunk story set IN Canada, written by a Canadian?
Interested? Check out my novel BOUNTY! Sequel coming soon 👀
#BookSky💙📚🪐
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Interested? Check out my novel BOUNTY! Sequel coming soon 👀
#BookSky💙📚🪐
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Bounty
Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within the sublev…
www.goodreads.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Saw a report by CBC that Canadians are focused on buying books written by Canadian authors. Well how about a climate fiction and cyberpunk story set IN Canada, written by a Canadian?
Interested? Check out my novel BOUNTY! Sequel coming soon 👀
#BookSky💙📚🪐
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Interested? Check out my novel BOUNTY! Sequel coming soon 👀
#BookSky💙📚🪐
www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Back to the query mines with a revised version of A House of Wolves. Streamlined the narrative, cut a storyline, and added a new chapter that my fiancée absolutely adored.
Keep your fingers crossed for me y'all!!
#BookySky💙📚
Keep your fingers crossed for me y'all!!
#BookySky💙📚
September 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Back to the query mines with a revised version of A House of Wolves. Streamlined the narrative, cut a storyline, and added a new chapter that my fiancée absolutely adored.
Keep your fingers crossed for me y'all!!
#BookySky💙📚
Keep your fingers crossed for me y'all!!
#BookySky💙📚
One of the best books I’ve read so far in 2025. Actually could not put it down until I was done!
Go get a copy today!!
Go get a copy today!!
Hey, House of Bone and Rain—a Stoker, Locus, and Goodreads finalist—is still just $3.99 everywhere for a limited time! If you like horror, crime, grief, magic, friendship, ocean monsters, and ghosts, this is for you. And THANK YOU! Every copy counts.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of the best books I’ve read so far in 2025. Actually could not put it down until I was done!
Go get a copy today!!
Go get a copy today!!
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People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
www.404media.co
September 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Every once in a while I pop in to Amazon to check on BOUNTY, and today I learned there's only one copy left!? What!? They JUST got it restocked...wild.
Seems my fellow canucks love a sci-fi story set in their own backyard. Who knew!
#BookSky💙📚🪐
Seems my fellow canucks love a sci-fi story set in their own backyard. Who knew!
#BookSky💙📚🪐
September 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Every once in a while I pop in to Amazon to check on BOUNTY, and today I learned there's only one copy left!? What!? They JUST got it restocked...wild.
Seems my fellow canucks love a sci-fi story set in their own backyard. Who knew!
#BookSky💙📚🪐
Seems my fellow canucks love a sci-fi story set in their own backyard. Who knew!
#BookSky💙📚🪐
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A listing on ultra-fast-fashion e-commerce site Shein used an AI-generated image of Luigi Mangione to sell a floral button-down t-shirt.
🔗 www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...
🔗 www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...
Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt
United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.
www.404media.co
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A listing on ultra-fast-fashion e-commerce site Shein used an AI-generated image of Luigi Mangione to sell a floral button-down t-shirt.
🔗 www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...
🔗 www.404media.co/shein-luigi-...
ICYMI - Before heading off to Worldcon, my interview with Night Beats dropped, where I talked all about my novel BOUNTY! #BookSky💙📚🪐
nightbeatseu.ca/2025/08/12/b...
nightbeatseu.ca/2025/08/12/b...
Behind the Screens: Tuesday Author Interview
Every Tuesday, get to know a bit about the stories behind the books you love, and discover your next favourite novel. Zilla: Cyberpunk and ecofiction might be genres made for each other. Jason Pcha…
nightbeatseu.ca
September 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ICYMI - Before heading off to Worldcon, my interview with Night Beats dropped, where I talked all about my novel BOUNTY! #BookSky💙📚🪐
nightbeatseu.ca/2025/08/12/b...
nightbeatseu.ca/2025/08/12/b...
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Join co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly as they recap their adventures at @seattlein2025.org, from yummy meals and hanging out with friends to BarCon, moderating panels and hosting their epic live episode of the podcast
Watch it HERE: youtu.be/aeFUEa-h7js?...
Watch it HERE: youtu.be/aeFUEa-h7js?...
August 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Join co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly as they recap their adventures at @seattlein2025.org, from yummy meals and hanging out with friends to BarCon, moderating panels and hosting their epic live episode of the podcast
Watch it HERE: youtu.be/aeFUEa-h7js?...
Watch it HERE: youtu.be/aeFUEa-h7js?...
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Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨
This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜
🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆
This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜
🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆
To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter - Lightspeed Magazine
Zan’s supervisor tossed the glass square onto their rusting desk. A glass-rendered construct of a silver ticket hovered in the air, text shimmering. Zan held their breath as they re-read it until they were sure their credentials were correct.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨
This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜
🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆
This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜
🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆
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I tell my friends I love them all the time and don't guard my emotions, I've teared up recording the show even if it's just about the computer because I give a shit about the work and how people are treated. You don't have to hide how you feel and those who try to make you stop are weak
the complete embrace of nihilism and the rejection of being genuine is the greatest danger to humanity right now
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I tell my friends I love them all the time and don't guard my emotions, I've teared up recording the show even if it's just about the computer because I give a shit about the work and how people are treated. You don't have to hide how you feel and those who try to make you stop are weak
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🪐 Speaking of which, I have to say Bounty from @jasonpchajek.bsky.social has one of the best opening lines I’ve seen. (No, I’m not telling; go check it out for yourself.) never did get the hang of pronouncing his name, though. The “Pch” combination isn’t among my known consonant combinations.
August 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🪐 Speaking of which, I have to say Bounty from @jasonpchajek.bsky.social has one of the best opening lines I’ve seen. (No, I’m not telling; go check it out for yourself.) never did get the hang of pronouncing his name, though. The “Pch” combination isn’t among my known consonant combinations.
Landed in Vancouver and was sent this.
I always have to pinch myself when this happens because I grew up reading the @winnipegfreepress.com
And speaking of…if any publishers want a story where a “retired” outlaw robs a magic professor of a powerful magical artifact…drop me a line. #BookSky💙📚
I always have to pinch myself when this happens because I grew up reading the @winnipegfreepress.com
And speaking of…if any publishers want a story where a “retired” outlaw robs a magic professor of a powerful magical artifact…drop me a line. #BookSky💙📚
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Landed in Vancouver and was sent this.
I always have to pinch myself when this happens because I grew up reading the @winnipegfreepress.com
And speaking of…if any publishers want a story where a “retired” outlaw robs a magic professor of a powerful magical artifact…drop me a line. #BookSky💙📚
I always have to pinch myself when this happens because I grew up reading the @winnipegfreepress.com
And speaking of…if any publishers want a story where a “retired” outlaw robs a magic professor of a powerful magical artifact…drop me a line. #BookSky💙📚
Officially back in maple syrup county 🇨🇦 Now for the roundabout trip home to Winnipeg!
August 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Officially back in maple syrup county 🇨🇦 Now for the roundabout trip home to Winnipeg!