Chimerascope (Short Story Collections) - Hardcover

Smith, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1928048374 ISBN 13: 9781928048374

Verlag: Spiral Path Books, 2023

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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.
...and more.

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.

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

"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 author of speculative fiction whose work has been published in 27 languages and 36 countries. Doug is a 3-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award and has been a finalist for the Astounding Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, the juried Alberta Magazine Award for Fiction, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane.

His latest work is the YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The Lost Expedition). His other books include the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World; the collections, Chimerascope and Impossibilia; and the writer's guide Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction.

Website: http://smithwriter.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/smithwritr

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Douglas Smith is a multi-award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." Doug's fiction has been published in twenty-six languages and thirty-two countries. He is a three-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, and has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane. His website is www.smithwriter.com and he tweets at twitter.com/smithwritr "The man is Sturgeon good. Zelazny good. I don't give those up easy." -Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner "A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." -Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner "His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Spiral Path Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1928048374
• ISBN 13: 9781928048374
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
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