Chimerascope

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Harper Collins, Apr 17, 2012 - Fiction - 332 pages

Sunburst Awards Finalist (2011)

Chimerascope, a story of many parts.

A young artist hungers to draw you.

A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.

A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew.

The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge.

A mysterious dancer leads a businessman to a most exclusive nightclub.

A man is born each day into a new life, only to die each night.

A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity.

A Norse god's bar in Toronto hosts an unplanned family reunion.

A woman descends into insanity, or is it the end of the world?

A house as big as the world.

These are some of the stories you will encounter in Chimerascope, the first full collection of short fiction from award-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith. Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction, including one Aurora Award-winners, a Best New Horror pick, and nine Aurora finalists, that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity’s last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything.

 

Contents

Authors Introduction
By Her Hand She Draws You Down
New Years
The Boys Are Back in Town
Jigsaw
The Dancer at the Red Door
A Taste Sweet and Salty
Memories of the Dead
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

Douglas Smith is an award-winning Toronto author of speculative fiction with over a hundred fiction sales in two dozen languages, including appearances in InterZone, Baen’s Universe, Amazing Stories, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Cicada, Postscripts, Weird Tales, On Spec,The Third Alternative, and anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW and others. He was a John W. Campbell Award finalist for best new writer in 2001, and has twice won Canada’s Aurora Award. This is his second collection of short fiction. His first collection, Impossibilia (PS Publishing, UK), was published in 2008 and garnered two more Aurora nominations. Doug recently completed his first novel, an urban fantasy set in Ontario, incorporating shapeshifters, covert government agencies, and Cree and Ojibwa legends. A film based on his supernatural horror story, “By Her Hand, She Draws You Down,” is in post-production with TinyCore Pictures in the US. Doug can be contacted via his web site, www.smithwriter.com.

Bibliographic information

TitleChimerascope
AuthorDouglas Smith
PublisherHarper Collins, 2012
ISBN1926851811, 9781926851815
Length332 pages
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