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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr)

@cycling2asylum.bsky.social
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Writer of speculative and interstitial fiction; social rights activist, VP 2024; Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisible (longlisted for the Sunburst ), Run J Run, Zee, Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line🌈

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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks!
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks!
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks!
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks, Peter! Sounds like good advice.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I like this one best because I like getting more worlbuilding and plot details.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I like the second. It has more focus and punch.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks to @aliennextdoor.bsky.social for asking some really interesting questions about sustainability. Check out our interview here: www.realityskimming.com/post/su-j-so...
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SU J. Sokol on Sustainability
As a social activist and author, Su J. Sokol discusses how xe strives to live in a sustainable way.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Portage students protested unfair work permit denials. Then immigration enforcement came to their protest and issued 10 removal orders! Migrants have the right to protest without fear. I sent a letter demanding action. Send yours: migrantrights.ca/RightToProte... #DefendRightToProtest
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Migrant Have The Right To Protest - Migrant Rights Network
250+ organizations across Canada are standing with Portage students and defending migrants’ right to speak out, organize and protest. Migrants are part of our movements. We will not allow immigration ...
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I adored this book, read the ending four times -- I never do that!
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Call on CBC News to connect the forest fires with the fossil fuel industry. share.nwmd.social/s/ZIQb1bmy
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Tell the CBC: Connect the Dots Between the Forest Fires and Fossil Fuels.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What an utterly fucked up survey. I did my best.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Me too. I was student rep when I went to NYU law and an active membership until I left the U.S.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yay for the NLG!
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B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave @bzelkovich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Oh, hey, @cycling2asylum.bsky.social look what just arrived at my library! Can't wait to hand them to soooo many patrons 💜💜💜.
Two brand new paperback books ("Invisible Line" and "Five Points on an Invisible Line" by Su J Sokol). Each cover shows a city skyline, reflected top and bottom with a cyclist bisecting them.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ooh, where is your library? Thanks for posting this!!
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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · 21/04/2026
That's TRIPLE 2026 AURORA AWARDS-NOMINATED author and podcaster Rachel A. Rosen discussing speculative fiction on Thursday, along with @cycling2asylum.bsky.social, moderated by @meganysta.bsky.social, on Thursday, by Kensington Market!
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Current Ballot – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m currently reading Five Points on an Invisible Line, by @cycling2asylum.bsky.social. It’s SO GOOD! I highly recommend following this awesome author! #SpoonieAuthChat
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Check out my latest short story, “Like Salt Marshes, Like Yourself" beautifully illustrated by Sean Suchara, with insightful annotations from Fatima Asghar and Autumn Brown. Thanks, @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social team!
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My short story, “Like Salt Marshes, Like Yourself” will be coming out in a week, on March 29th. So thrilled and honoured to be working with this team!
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Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So excited to be teaming up with Tractor Beam Issue 3 author @sarahkat.bsky.social for @writershq.bsky.social's Write A Short Story Festival in April. Sign up for our soilpunk workshop here: writershq.co.uk/whq-event/so... Full details coming soon! ✍️📖🌱✨
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 03/03/2026
Oh I missed that @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social release, looks SO GOOD
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And whatever you, that is, your friend, end up writing, I will be happy to read it.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hi back! Yeah, I am not on social media a lot.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Can you, I mean this other person, write an intimate story that takes place within a big cinematic space opera?
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Someone just tagged me to this viral post on Threads. I’m feeling rage.
My son came home CRYING.
Teacher told him: 'Your book report on Nnedi Okorafor doesn't count. Pick a REAL author.'
I was at the principal's office in 20 MINUTES.
'Nnedi won the HUGO AWARD. Define
REAL!
Principal sided with the teacher.
I pulled my son out. HOMESCHOOL now.
Best decision EVER.
He just finished book 15. All African authors.
His confidence? UNSHAKEABLE. b
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Oh no, I'm sorry you've been going through this!
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13/02/2026
Oh! So they lied!
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Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
There are a lot of other things that you can do to stop death camps from being constructed but this is a real-name account. I'm sure you can read accounts of WWII and dystopian fiction to find out what some of them are.
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Sam Mintz @samjmintz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great local reporting on an unprecedented, ominous situation in El Paso elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...
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El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites natio...
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a national defense designation, offering no explanation for the rare move.An une...
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Ashley "Billie" Thomson 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ashleybillie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Le retrait d’un drapeau arc-en-ciel du site historique de Stonewall dédié aux droits LGBT+ à New York, en raison de règles adoptées par l’administration Trump, a provoqué mardi l’indignation du maire démocrate et de plusieurs organisations, qui ont appelé à manifester. www.noovo.info/nouvelles/in...
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Le retrait d’un drapeau arc-en-ciel d’un site historique à New York provoque l’indignation
Le monument national de Stonewall commémore les émeutes du même nom qui se sont déroulées en 1969 à la suite d’un raid policier dans le Stonewall Inn, un bar gay de Greenwich Village, à New York.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/02/2026
The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 10/02/2026
Again, for anyone who needs help articulating the fact that the BBC is routinely using fake-scientific language to express bigoted views while pretending they're being neutral... oolong.medium.com/biological-m... bsky.app/profile/dani...
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‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I am so excited that to be in the same anthology as my buddies Rich Larson and D.F. McCourt -- with whom I also share a byline, since we wrote the story together (a first for me!)
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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's Spring in the City day! Grab this anthology of dark urban fantasy stories featuring living cities and new dangers wherever books are sold. Buy direct: links.ruadanbooks.com/spring Join us for our launch event at 8 PM ET: links.ruadanbooks.com/springparty #BookSky #shortstories #TBR
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thank you ImaginAtlas for this detailed and thoughtful review. I also love the title: "Five points on an invisible line: Family, Love and Fighting Fascism." imaginatlas.ca/five-points-...
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Five points on an invisible line: Family, Love, and Fighting Fascism - ImaginAtlas
After several years of anticipation, the sequel to Su J. Sokol’s Cycling to Asylum (which has received a new edition under the title Invisible Lines) is finally here. As someone who absolutely adored ...
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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I've always found @cycling2asylum.bsky.social's books read like real life through a science fiction paradigm. Must be the #bicycles! Go to xyr profile page and read reviews, interviews & more. These are great books (and thoughtful, too) to recommend for #EBookGifts.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thanks, Paula! That is very kind.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I sent a message on your website.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thank you. How should I reach out to you?
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's a small independent publisher, but yes, the book is traditionally published.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Any interest in books that just came out in fall 2025?
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SFCanada.org @sfcanadawriters.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A fantastic interview w/ Su J. Sokol @cycling2asylum.bsky.social at Interstellar Flight Magazine! @lisatimpf.bsky.social Learn about xyr books "Invisible Line" & "Five Points on an Invisible Line" & how they explore "activism, social justice, & environmental ... themes" --> magazine.interstella...
Book promo post. Background colours are alternating shades of orange and blue, with a distressed texture. Two books are featured: Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line, both written by Su J. Sokol. Invisible Line is split diagonally, with the opposite corners showing skyscapes of Montreal and the title at an angle between the two corners. Five points shows the same city views, but on the opposite corner than depicted on Invisible Line. A cyclist pedals through the centre of the book, through the title, which is again at a slant.
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thank you to @lisatimpf.bsky.social and @interstellarflight.bsky.social for this chance to discuss community, activism, and hopepunk. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/hopepunk-act...
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Hopepunk, Activism, and Community
Interview with Su J. Sokol, author of Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thank you, Lisa TImpf and The Seaboard Review of Books, for this review of Five Points on an Invisible Line! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/five-point...
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Five Points on an Invisible Line by Su J Sokol
Reviewed by Lisa Timpf
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M.H. Law @itsmhlaw.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I had a great night at Livre and Let Livre last night with @alexwhitebean.bsky.social, @cycling2asylum.bsky.social, Rich Larson, @michellefranklin.bsky.social and @neuvel.net! 🖤🎃🖤
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Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I had the amazing opportunity to be interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille for their award-winning podcast, Speculating Canada. You can watch the interview here: speculatingcanada.ca/2025/10/20/a...
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An Interview with Su Sokol
I had the wonderful opportunity to finally sit down and talk to Su J Sokol, activist and Spec Fic writer. As an activist myself, I knew that Xe would be an interesting person to talk to about socia…
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