Sunburst Award finalist | Aurora Award finalist | CBC's Bookies Award finalist
Chimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] — a story of many parts...
Doug's second collection contains sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists. 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.
"His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author
"A massively enjoyable trek...all filtered through Smith's remarkable imagination and prodigious talent." —Quill and Quire (starred review)
"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." —Library Journal
"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
"Douglas Smith is an extraordinary author whom every lover of quality speculative fiction should read. Rating: A+" —Fantasy Book Critic
"Arrestingly inventive premises in a field where really interesting new ideas are harder and harder to find. ...Smith is definitely an author who deserves to be more widely read." —Strange Horizons
"A beautifully diverse selection of short tales...well-crafted, easily digestible; several of the stories are incredibly moving and stick with the reader long after." —Sunburst Award jury
"Smith is a master of beginnings...some of the most well-crafted hooks you'll find anywhere...[with] endings that feel satisfying and right." —Canadian Science Fiction Review
About the Author
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). His other books include the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World; the collections Borderlanz, Chimerascope, Impossibilia, and La Danse des Esprits (translated); and the writer's guide Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction.
Published in 28 languages, Doug is a 4-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, most recently for The Hollow Boys, as well as the juried IAP Award for the same book. He's also 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 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, Cicada, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and The Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction (vol.2).
Doug lives near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
"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
