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Finalist for the Sunburst Award, the Aurora Award, and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's Bookies Award

Chimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] -- 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.

Chimerascope is Doug's first full collection of short fiction, containing sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists. Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction 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.

Reviews

"A massively enjoyable trek ... all filtered through Smith's remarkable imagination and prodigious talent. ... Smith's writing, evocative yet understated, gracefully brings to life his imagined realms." --Quill and Quire, *Starred Review* 

"Showcases the inventive mind and immense storytelling talent of one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." --Library Journal 
 
"A gifted writer ... Smith paints his worlds so well that you are transported within a paragraph or two and remain in transit until the short story ends." --Broken Pencil Magazine
 
"An entertaining selection of stories that deftly span multiple genres" --Publishers Weekly
  
"An engaging and entertaining volume, pieces of whose content resonate after the book is finished."--Booklist 
 
"Douglas Smith is an extraordinary author whom every lover of quality speculative fiction should read. Rating: A+"--Fantasy Book Critic 
 
"Speaks volumes of his range and future potential. ... Smith is definitely an author who deserves to be more widely read." --Strange Horizons 
 
"A beautifully diverse selection of short tales that runs the full spectrum of the speculative genres. The tales are well-crafted, easily digestible; several of the stories are incredibly moving and stick with the reader long after." -- 2011 Sunburst Award jury 
 
"A superb collection... a collection you'll want to own and re-read. ... It's a complex mix: one of the many reasons this collection succeeds so powerfully." --Ideomancer Magazine 
 "An absolutely stunning short story collection ... one of the best I've ever read." --Corey Redekop, award-winning author

About the Author

"Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." --Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids and FlashForward
 
"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." --Charles de Lint, award-winning fantasy writer
 
"One of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." --Library Journal

Douglas Smith is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, with over a million words of fiction sold and over a hundred and fifty story publications in thirty countries and two dozen languages.

He has published three short story collections: Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2010), Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, UK, 2008), and La Danse des Esprits (Dreampress, France, 2011).

Doug has twice won Canada's Aurora Award for speculative fiction, and have been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane
 
His website is smithwriter.com and he tweets at twitter.com/smithwritr.


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