Chimerascope - Smith, Douglas
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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…mehr

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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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Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The Lost Expedition). Other books include the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World; the collections, Chimerascope, Impossibilia, and La Danse des Esprits (translated); and the writer's guide Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction.His short fiction has appeared in the top markets in the field, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, InterZone, Weird Tales, Baen's Universe, Escape Pod, On Spec, and Cicada.Published in 27 languages, Doug is a 4-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, most recently in 2023 for The Hollow Boys, as well as the juried IAP Award for the same book. He's 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. "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