Douglas Smith | Writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Summary
Current 2011 Sunburst Award short list selection
Current 2011 Aurora Award Finalist
2011 CBC Bookies Award Finalist

Collection | 16 stories, 332 pages | introduction by Julie Czerneda
Trade Paperback, signed by author and personalized as requested
ChiZine Publications, 2010

“A massively enjoyable trek” —Quill & Quire *starred review*

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 Aurora Award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight Aurora 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.

Genre
Collection of short fiction including fantasy, science fiction, horror, slipstream

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Publication History
Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, Jan 2010; ISBN 978-0-9813746-1-1; 978-0-9812978-5-9).

Ordering Instructions
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