Impossibilia

By Douglas Smith
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Published: Oct. 12, 2012
Words: 35,754 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301440191

Short description

Aurora Award Finalist. A short fiction collection by the award-winning writer that Robert J. Sawyer calls "quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the SF and fantasy genres." Impossibilia contains three novelettes, including an award winner and a finalist: A dead wife that won’t leave. A wolf with a past. The secret to being the luckiest man alive.

Extended description

Aurora Award Finalist.

The people we meet in Impossiblia are like any of us. They have secrets…fears…desires. Things they keep hidden. Things they keep locked away. Or try to. Only their things are a little…different.

A dead wife that won’t leave. (Read more) Aurora Award Finalist.

The people we meet in Impossiblia are like any of us. They have secrets…fears…desires. Things they keep hidden. Things they keep locked away. Or try to. 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.

In “Bouquet of Flowers in Vase, by van Gogh,” remote viewing drives a search through the past for lost masterpieces. An ex-CIA agent, haunted by the presence of his dead wife, falls in love with a beautiful remote viewer with her own secret. But can viewing the past change the present?

Cree Indian legends, a love triangle, a covert government agency, and shape shifters collide in the award-winning “Spirit Dance,” described in Challenging Destiny as “...a vivid and wonderfully written tale about Native Canadian spirits, in the vein of Thomas King.”

In “Going Down to Lucky Town,” an itinerant gambler chases a streak of luck across the country, while trying to win back the love of his daughter. The secret he finds forces him into the gamble of his life for the highest stakes of all: his daughter’s life.

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.

Enjoy!

About Douglas Smith:

"Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. 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

Douglas Smith is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, with over a million words of fiction sold and a hundred and fifty stories in thirty countries and two dozen languages.

He has twice won Canada's Aurora Award for speculative fiction, and has been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, the CBC Bookies award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane.

Doug has published three collections of short fiction: Chimerascope (2010), Impossibilia (2008), and La Danse des Esprits (France, 2011).

In 2010, an independent film producer released a multi-award winning short film based on Doug's story "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down." Films based on his stories "A State of Disorder" and "Memories of the Dead Man" are also in the works.
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romance, adventure, fantasy, paranormal, short story, canada, science fiction, collection, sf, award winning, lucky bat books

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