Amorina Kingdon

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Hi! I am a science journalist and speculative fiction writer living in Victoria, BC. My first non-fiction book is Sing Like Fish, and I have also published several short stories in PRISM, Speculative North, and other places.

Thank you to everyone who reads, comments on, or engages with my work! It means so much to me to see my work out in the world :)

When it comes to reading, I am always awed by beautiful nature writing. I am a longtime diehard speculative fiction girl, and I have been making my way through the classics.

My work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays, received a Digital Publishing Award, a Jack Webster Award, and I was awarded Best New Magazine Writer from the National Magazine Awards. I used to be a staff writer and
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I did not know what to expect going into this book, but I came out feeling astounded and humbled.

POD tells the story of various underwater animals - dolphins of various species, wrasse and fugu fish, eels, and many others, though dolphins primarily
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“Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: “This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.”
Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Water, much denser than air, conducts sound four and a half times faster. (In compressible solids like steel molecules are packed tighter. Sound races at about 5 kilometers per second through stainless.)”
Amorina Kingdon, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

“Fish have three otoliths per ear: The largest stone is called the sagitta, and these tiny vials contain sagitta pairs.”
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