Douglas Smith - Libros y biografía

The man known only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name. Each day he lived. And each night he died… Fantasy, surreal (short story) "...absolutely masterful...a kind of much, much creepier...

Aurora Award Finalist | Best New Horror Selection*** Now an award-winning independent film *** Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she...

Aurora Award FinalistMaroch, an expert in remote viewing and an ex-agent of the 'Company,' reluctantly agrees to coach a beautiful young woman "viewer," who bears an uncanny resemblance to his dead wife,...

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...

Aurora Award Finalist Dr. Lucius Rainer, head of research at GenTech, is dead. But to Jack, it seems that his old mentor still lives on through his house. Certainly, Rainer's strange island retreat exudes...

Aurora Award Finalist The year is 1999. The world awaits a new millennium with a mixture of anticipation and dread. The fear stems from the much-hyped Y2K computer problem, the so-called millennium bug,...

AURORA AWARD WINNERYear's Best Fantasy & Horror honorable mentionInternet SF database Top 50 stories of the year The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing their powers and vitality...

Jan Mirocek used to be a hunter. A very special hunter. Once, he had hunted the things that haunt the forests of the night in every culture of the world. The kallikantzari of Greece. The loup-garou of...

Aurora Award Finalist On the anniversary of his wife's death, Liam makes a startling discovery. The particle accelerator experiments that he is conducting for the university are capable of opening a window...

A woman tries in vain to convince those around her that the world is ending. Is she right…or is she losing her mind? Slipstream, fantasy (short story) "One of Canada's most original writers of speculative...

Aurora Award Finalist Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event based...

As First Officer on the part passenger ship, part space freighter, The Fiscal Restraint, Dex thinks he knows all there is to know about "Murphy's Law": If anything can go wrong, it will. And on the perpetually...

AURORA AWARD WINNER Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event based...

Aurora Award Finalist The Builders had made the House generations ago, to shelter the remnants of humanity from the poisons of the Outside. The Inners, the direct descendants of the Builders, now rule...

Aurora Award Finalist The colony ship, The Last Chance, has fled a plague-poisoned Earth with the remnants of the human race. Launched before completion of its biosphere, the ship is only partly self-sustaining....

What happens when the world loses the last of a thing? Four mighty warriors set out to slay the last dragon, opposed by only a fool. But even a fool knows: the last of a thing is something to cherish. "One...

Charlie the Pearl—con man, gambler, and ever absent father—is about to catch the dream that he's chased his entire life—the secret of good luck. But it's a secret that could cost Charlie the only thing...

Aurora Award Finalist Humans are just beginning to explore the outer reaches of our solar system when the wormships are discovered outside the orbit of Pluto. Abandoned? Lost? Or left to be found? Found...

Mary and her teenage son, Jase, survive by their own wits in a post-plague Earth. On the run from a vicious gang, they are saved by Bishop, a man with mysterious powers who just may be the Dead Man, the...

Aurora Award Finalist When the Shogun's soldiers burn his village and kill his parents, young Asai is rescued by a strange red hawk and led to a fabled temple. Here, he trains under Ikada, the Warrior...

Aurora Award FinalistYear's Best Fantasy & Horror Honorable Mention When James Mackaby, respected scholar, husband and father, accepts a dinner invitation from an old rival who has fallen on hard...

Aurora Award Finalist Alexander King has everything--wealth, power, a business empire over which he rules. But lately, the corporate game in which he excels has lost its thrill for him. He needs a new...

Vaya is an immortal Valkyrie and favorite daughter of Odin All Father, sworn to carry dead heroes from the battlefields of Earth to live forever in Valhalla. One day, she intervenes on the battlefield...

Paulo and Dino run a quiet little bar in Toronto, happily retired from their former gig of being immortal gods on Olympus…and Asgard…and… Well, let's just say they've been around. But their peaceful retirement...

Hari is the greatest thief that Taryaryo has ever known. Well, at least he was until he tried to steal a certain jewel from the most powerful wizard in the land. The theft went, uh, less than perfectly....

A Heroka story Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their...

AURORA AWARD WINNER The Walker is a child of the two Realms of the Continuum, a prince of Order and of Chaos—and a rebel against both. When he falls in love with an ephemeral, a mortal woman who is the...

Twelve-year-old Andy Pembleton's younger brother disappeared two years ago. The loss tore Andy's world apart. His father left. His mother withdrew into guilt, all but ignoring Andy. But Andy is going...

A biografia que mudará para sempre a forma como vemos uma das figuras mais poderosas da Rússia tsarista. Mais de cem anos após seu assassinato, Raspútin continua na imaginação popular como um símbolo...

Second Edition "Short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. ... It's spectacular." — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author & editor Fully revised and current, this second...