Chimerascope

Chimerascope — 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.

These are some of the stories you will encounter in Chimerascope, the first full collection of short fiction from award-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith. Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction, including one Aurora Award-winners, a Best New Horror pick, and nine Aurora finalists, 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.

Contents:

• Introduction by Julie Czerneda
• Author's Introduction
• Scream Angel
• The Red Bird
• By Her Hand, She Draws You Down
• New Year’s Eve
• The Boys Are Back in Town
• State of Disorder
• Nothing
• Symphony
• Out of the Light
• Enlightenment
• The Last Ride
• Jigsaw
• The Dancer at the Red Door
• Going Harvey in the Big House
• A Taste Sweet and Salty
• Memories of the Dead Man
• Murphy's Law (bonus story only available in the hardcover edition)