Chimerascope

Sunburst Award Finalist | Aurora Award Finalist | CBC's Bookies Award Finalist

"Showcases the inventive mind and immense storytelling talent of one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." --Library Journal

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 contains sixteen of Doug's 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*

"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." --Sunburst Award jury

"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

"Smith is definitely an author who deserves to be more widely read." --Strange Horizons

"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

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

"One of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." --Library Journal

"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." --Charles de Lint, award winning author

Douglas Smith is a multi-award-winning Canadian author of speculative fiction, with over a hundred and fifty short story publications in thirty-two countries and twenty-six languages.

His books include the novel, THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD, and the collections, CHIMERASCOPE and IMPOSSIBILIA.

Doug has won Canada's Aurora Award three times, and has been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane.

Doug's website is smithwriter.com and he tweets at twitter.com/smithwritr.