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Douglas Smith

Aurora Award Finalist. 

We all have things we hide inside — secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to.

In that respect, the characters we meet in IMPOSSIBILIA are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little…different.

A dead wife that won’t leave.

A wolf with a past.

The secret to being the luckiest man alive.

And through all the stories, these characters share one more thing beyond what they hold inside. In the decisions they face, in the choices they make, they do what they do out of love. Lost love, found love, the love of their child. But love. 

So maybe they aren’t that different from us after all.

“Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres… His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think. ” —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author

“One of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction. ” —Library Journal

"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice. ” —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner

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Impossibilia

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 the multi-award winning 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

Short Story Collections - The book series

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