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Sunburst Award Finalist Aurora Award Finalist CBC Bookies Award Finalist 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 the first full collection of short fiction from multi-award winning author Douglas Smith, 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. Chimerascope includes the following stories: Scream Angel The Red Bird By Her Hand, She Draws You Down New Year's Eve Out of the Light State of Disorder The Boys Are Back in Town Symphony Enlightenment Nothing Jigsaw Going Harvey in the Big House The Last Ride The Dancer at the Red Door A Taste Sweet and Salty Memories of the Dead Man

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"Finalist for Sunburst Award, Aurora Award, CBC Bookies Award ""...Chimerascope is a massively enjoyable trek through the far-fetched, the horrifying, and the flat-out weird, all filtered through Smith's remarkable imagination and prodigious talent. ... Although Smith's tales may centre on the fantastic, what is immediately notable is his steady grasp of character, which lends humanity to even the most absurd situations. The stories in this collection traverse genres and styles -- from outright horror to witty surrealism to martial-arts mythology -- without missing a beat. ... 'The Dancer at the Red Door, ' with its mix of oblique horror, urban fantasy, and monsters equipped with pincers extending 'from each side of a slit-like mouth, ' recalls Clive Barker at his most disturbingly fanciful. ... The closing story, the post-apocalyptic narrative 'Memories of the Dead Man, ' contains echoes of Stephen King. Chimerascope is a sterling set, with nary a weak or disposable entry. Smith's writing, evocative yet understated, gracefully brings to life his imagined realms."" - Quill and Quire, Mar 2010 *Starred Review* ""From a bittersweet tale of love amid the savagery of human galactic conquest (""Scream Angel"") to a postapocalyptic story of a righteous gunman known only as the Dead Man (""Memories of the Dead Man""), the 16 stories in this collection showcase the inventive mind and immense storytelling talent of one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction. Covering the spectrum from sf (""Enlightenment"") to horror (""By Her Hand, She Draws You Down"") to fantasy (""The Boys Are Back in Town""), Smith writes with a keen eye for detail and atmosphere, crafting each story with wit and perception. VERDICT: Twice winner of Canada's Aurora Award, Smith writes stories that will appeal to fans of such literary sf writers such as Jack Vance and Gene Wolfe."" - Library Journal, Mar 2010 ""Smith is obviously a gifted writer in the genre of science-fiction. ... Smith paints his worlds so well that you are transported within a paragraph or two and remain in transit until the short story ends -- a challenging feat to be sure. Smith takes common science-fiction topics, such as love between alien races, and manages to find a new way to have his tales unfold. ... Smith tells them with a flair that breathes life into his characters. ... [The] familiar traits that drive human needs and wants -- such as ambition, pride, love, hate and fear -- are what piece these stories together and give them a life of their own."" -Broken Pencil, The Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts, August 2010 ""Smith's second collection (after 2008's Impossibilia) delivers an entertaining selection of stories that deftly span multiple genres, often milking surprisingly original tales out of tired tropes. The Zelazny-inspired ""The Boys Are Back in Town"" nicely toes the line between quirky humor and pathos. ""State of Disorder,"" featuring a classic mad scientist out for revenge, is a neat twist on time travel and quantum physics. ""Jigsaw,"" a young adult tale, is a fun romp involving aliens and continental drift. The best of the bunch, ""By Her Hand, She Draws You Down,"" is a haunting variant on the vampire legend with an understated and brutal ending."" - Publishers Weekly, Jan 2010 ""[An] engaging and entertaining volume, pieces of whose content resonate after the book is finished."" -Booklist, Apr 2010"

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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.""Published in 27 languages, 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 website is https: //smithwriter.com. ""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""Stories you can't forget, even years later."" -Julie Czerneda, multi-award-winning author and editor"

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