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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway]
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🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 | Nebula winner | Ignyte, Aurora, Sturgeon finalist | rep: Shannon Lechon | THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA (Erewhon Books, 2026) | OUR INFINITE AND INEVITABLE ENDS (ECW Press, 2026)| https://linktr.ee/thesuiway |
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convincing you to read my upcoming novel (February 2026) with the first sentence.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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fellow Canadians 🍁!

when you pre-order The Iron Garden Sutra from @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social or Queen Books in Toronto, you receive some pre-order goodies!

A custom button! A bookmark! A signed bookplate!

The Iron Garden Sutra comes out in 3.5 months! where has the time gone?!
Pre-order goodies for the Iron Garden Sutra include a custom button, a bookmark, and a signed bookplate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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post you from a different era.

2015-ish. bb A.D. still had a functional L-spine and dopamine. this is from a practice bout in Poland before the Moscow World Champs.
a fencer with a Canadian maple leaf on their mask is advancing against a Polish fencer. the fencing piste is secured on a blue floor. the piste itself is silver in colour. light shines across both fencers from a shaded window.
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The Iron Garden Sutra got its first starred review (and is the SFF pick of the month) !!! 👀
Starred review is written in all caps against a space background. The Library Journal review excerpt reads: This elaborate novel takes a locked-room murder mystery into outer space. Exploring themes of faith and philosophy, evolution and self-awareness, Sui creates a beautifully crafted world, sprinkled with a bit of horror and romance.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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done!
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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done!
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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done!
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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done!
receipt for $50 donation
November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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done!
receipt for $50 food bank donation
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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a new month, a new giveaway!!

my publisher is giving away 75 print ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra!

enter by November 15th! 👇

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
A bright yellow book is depicted against a dark space background. An orange banner has the words "75 winners" on it. The poster is promoting a goodreads giveaway for 75 print ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra. Enter the giveaway by November 15th for your chance to win. Open to US entrants only.
November 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The winners of the raffle have been picked! Thanks to everyone who entered! If you’re one of the winning tickets, pick up your signed ARC at the @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social booth!!

WINNING NUMBERS:

3740014
3740016
3740019

@canconsffh.bsky.social
The winners of the raffle have been picked! Thanks to everyone who entered! If you’re one of the winning tickets, pick up your signed ARC at the Bakka Phoenix booth!! WINNING NUMBERS: 3740014 3740016 3740019
October 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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how it feels to be requesting ARCs right now.
people with a Kindle are making out with Netgalley and getting all the ARCs they want while I, a person with a Kobo, remain a sad Wolverine who stands and looks into middle space like I am a character on The Office.
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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stopped by @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social to drop off ARCs and sign some Dragonflies!!!

living that author dream 🥹🥹
The Iron Garden Sutra novel held against a multi coloured bookshelf. The book cover is bright yellow with white letters and several black orbits. A photograph of me, signing The Dragonfly Gambit. I am a Caucasian person with short, brown hair. I’m wearing a black shirt with a jean long-sleeved shirt over it. I am in a bookstore that has many floor to ceiling bookshelves filled with books. I am smiling.
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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it's a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 🔥

enter before October 10th to win!

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social are giving away 100 ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra 🤯

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

*US entrants only
It's a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! Enter by October 10 for your chance to win one of 100 ARCs! Use the link below to enter: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/422667-the-iron-garden-sutra *US entrants only
September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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not here, but i will be at @canconsffh.bsky.social !!
Schedule for Can*Con Friday Wandering about and getting lost (all evening). If you see me, please offer me food and words of encouragement. Saturday Signing (Newbridge Room) 11:30 – 12 p.m. (will have Dragonfly postcards and bookmarks) New Perspectives on Space Exploration (Mainstream) 2:30- 3:20 p.m. Lived Experience as Story Fodder (Leaders) 7:00- 7:50 p.m.
September 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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jokes aside, i found out recently that Dragonfly won the Laureate Award for Best Shorter Work!

i continue to be pleasantly surprised that this little, angry novella is resonating with folks close and far from home.

many thanks 🙏
A screenshot from the National Fantasy Fan Federation that shows that The Dragonfly Gambit has won the award for Best Shorter Work. My last name is misspelled as "Shui", which makes it sound like the word for water. Hence, the possum with long, brown hair is depicted against a waterdrop with the character for water behind it. below, the caption reads "she water".
August 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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looks like 2026 is going to be a double feature!

thrilled to announce that the infamous novel that was written in a month, the one that started as a sweat-drenched nightmare, now titled OUR INFINITE AND INEVITABLE ENDS, will be coming to you in fall of 2026 from @ecwpress.bsky.social!
Publishers Marketplace announcement: Nebula-winning author A.D. Sui's OUR INFINITE AND INEVITABLE ENDS, in whcih a washed-up academic studying the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is arrested on charges of domestic terrorism following the death of her ex-lover in a mysterious explosion at a facility researching alternate realities, to Jen Albert at ECW Press, for publication in fall 2026, by Shannon Lechon at Azantian Literary Agency (NA English and French).
August 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Canadians, voting for the Auroras closes this week!

get yours in before it's too late!

i just submitted mine!

www.csffa.ca/members-home...
A possum with long, brown hair is pictured against the aurora borealis and an Aurora awards trophy with the text "she voted".
July 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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the B&N pre-order sale is upon us!

for the first time, i am happy to announce that The Iron Garden Sutra can be pre-ordered using the code PREORDER25.

i am very excited to see my book *exist* and even more excited for you to have it!

LINK:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-iron-g...

#BNPreorder
Barnes and Noble, Twenty-five percent pre-orders will be running from July 8th to July 11th. Available only for Premium and Rewards members. Use the code PREORDER25. The cover of the Iron Garden Sutra is yellow and is pictured in front of some dark green ferns. The cover also depicts a small, black spaceship and a series of orbits, in black. Synopsis of The Iron Garden Sutra against a dark green, leaf background: The Iron Garden Sutra Vessel Iris has devoted himself to the Starlit Order, performing funeral rites for the dead across the galaxy and guiding souls back into the Infinite Light. Despite the comfort he wants to believe he brings to the dead, his relationships with his fellow Vessels are distant at best, leaving him reliant on his AI construct for companionship. The spaceship Counsel of Nicaea has been lost for more than a thousand years. A relic of Earth’s dying past, humanity took the ship to the stars on a multi-generation journey to find another habitable planet yet never reached its destination. Its sudden appearance has attracted a team of academics eager to investigate its archeological history. And Iris has been assigned to bring peace to the crew’s long departed souls. Carpeted in moss and intertwined with vines, Nicaea is more forest than ship. But the ship's plant life isn’t the only sentience to have survived in the past millennia. Something onboard is stalking the explorers one by one. And Iris with his AI construct may be their only hope for survival. . .
July 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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coming up to ALA next week?

i'll be signing ARCs of my upcoming novel The Iron Garden Sutra and appearing on a panel!!

looking forward to seeing you there 😘

*i have bookmarks and buttons to give out!!! 🔥
A.D. Sui will be signing ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra, a sci-fi space adventure novel between ten and ten fifty a.m. at the Kensington booth Cold Trail: Investigating Cold Cases in Fiction and Non-Fiction From a true-crime research who has finally solved the greatest murder mystery of the Twentieth Century; an internationally bestselling author’s newest psychologically suspenseful novel that breaks open a cold case in dangerous ways in a quiet Wisconsin town; to a sci-fi novel that finds a science team exploring a long-lost spaceship and uncovering its dark and disturbing history, these authors from Kensington Publishing Corp discuss unsolved criminal investigations in their latest fictional and nonfiction titles. Panel takes place in booth 138 at one oh-five p.m. on Monday
June 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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FYI, a soft launch.

i am too lazy to edit existing bios out there, so this is just going forward.
screenshot of my Instagram header with pronouns listed as they/them
June 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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my local pizza place is having some fantastic deals.
Screenshot of an online pizza shop web page with the words: Download the app and get off your first order. Also featuring pop drinks.
June 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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hi friends!

a reminder that the Iron Garden Sutra ARC sign-up form is still open! tell your reviewer friends! tell your influencer friends! tell your friends who like "dark and disturbing" spaceships!

link: forms.gle/PFBzQuL3WShw...
White text against a space nebula background: The Iron Garden Sutra ARC Sign-up Form is Live! Link in bio followed by a heart White text against a space nebula background: A monk joins a science team in exploring a long-lost spaceship, uncovering its dark and disturbing history— and encountering something beyond human understanding—in this thought-provoking, metaphysical science fiction novel.
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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partner man: hey, can you help me chop these veggies?
me: hold on babe, i'm writing an obituary for the kettle.
A photograph of an old Breville aluminum kettle on a wooden table with the words: it is with great sadness that i retire my twelve year-old, electric, temperature controlled kettle. this kettle was my first-ever luxury item, giften to me on my twenty-second birthday by Medic Strong. it has provided perfectly hot water for thousands cups of tea, hundreds hot water bottles, and probably like at least two hundred instant noodle packs. rest easy, sweet prince. you've done well.
May 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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THIS IS TONIGHT!!! come hang out with @dracopoullos.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, and i for some flash readings!! 👇

www.eventbrite.com/e/flash-scie...
An event poster from Space Cowboy Books for a reading event taking place online tonight at 6 pm PT. Includes readings by Jenna Hanchey, Phoenix Alexander, and A.D. Sui. Registration is free. Link in the post.
April 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM