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" Aurora Award WINNER
- "The Red Bird" Aurora Award Finalist
- "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" Aurora Award Finalist, Best New Horror selection
- "New Year's Eve" Aurora Award Finalist
- "Out of the Light"
- "State of Disorder" Aurora Award Finalist
- "The Boys Are Back in Town"
- "Symphony" Aurora Award Finalist
- "Enlightenment" Aurora Award Finalist
- "Nothing"
- "Jigsaw" Aurora Award Finalist
- "Going Harvey in the Big House" Aurora Award Finalist
- "The Last Ride"
- "The Dancer at the Red Door" Aurora Award Finalist
- "A Taste Sweet and Salty"
- "Memories of the Dead Man"
"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
