Chimerascope

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.

© 2016 Spiral Path Books (Ebook): 9780991800704

Release date

Ebook: 1 November 2016