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Chimerascope
| Author: | Douglas Smith |
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ChiZine Publications, 2010 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
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 Doug's first full collection of short fiction, 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.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Julie E. Czerneda
- Author's Introduction - essay
- Scream Angel - (2003) - novelette
- The Red Bird - (2001) - shortstory
- By Her Hand, She Draws You Down - (2001) - shortstory
- New Year's Eve - (1998) - shortfiction
- The Boys Are Back In Town - (2000) - shortstory
- State of Disorder - (1999) - shortstory
- Nothing - shortstory
- Symphony - (1999) - shortfiction
- Out of the Light - (2007) - shortfiction
- Enlightenment - (2004) - shortstory
- The Last Ride - (2006) - shortstory
- Jigsaw - (2004) - shortstory
- The Dancer at the Red Door - (2007) - novelette
- 16 - Going Harvey in the Big House - (2005) - novelette
- A Taste Sweet and Salty - (2006) - shortfiction
- Memories of the Dead Man - (2005) - shortstory
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