Location: Canada
Member Since: Nov. 03, 2010
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Douglas Smith


Biography

I'm an award-winning Canadian author of speculative fiction, with over a hundred story sales in thirty countries and twenty-four languages around the world, including InterZone, Amazing Stories, Cicada, Baen's Universe, Weird Tales, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Postscripts, On Spec, and The Third Alternative, as well as anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW, Meisha Merlin, and others.

I have two collections of short fiction. My latest, CHIMERASCOPE (ChiZine Publications, 2010), contains 16 of my favourite stories, including an Aurora winner, a Best New Horror selection, and nine Aurora finalists. My first collection, IMPOSSIBILIA (2008), is available from the award-winning UK press, PS Publishing. These can be ordered from the Store page on my web site, www.smithwriter.com, where you can also read some free online stories along with a complete list of my published fiction is available here along with reviews of my stories.

I was a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, and have twice won the Aurora Award (2001 and 2004) for best SF&F short fiction by a Canadian. An indie film producer recently completed a short film based on one of my stories. More information is available on my website.

Where to find Douglas Smith online

Website: http://www.smithwriter.com
Twitter: dougsmithwriter
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://www.smithwriter.com/blogs/douglas_smith

Where to buy in print

http://www.smithwriter.com/store

Books

By Her Hand, She Draws You Down: The Movie Companion Book    by Douglas Smith
Price: $2.99 USD. 15400 words. Published on April 24, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Award winning independent film. The official companion book for the indie supernatural film “By Her Hand, She Draws You Down,” directed by Anthony Sumner, based on the acclaimed story by award-winning writer, Douglas Smith. Contains the original story, the movie shooting script, interviews, photos from the set, and much more.
The Boys Are Back in Town    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11720 words. Published on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Paulo and and his brother 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 ends when Pop drops in. And the Father of the Gods has brought company. Unwanted company.
Symphony    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 8810 words. Published on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. The colony ship, The Last Chance, has reached the planet Aurora. Earth is dying, and this alien world is humanity’s last refuge. The planet seems like a dream come true, until the colonists realize that they aren't alone after all. Something else lives on Aurora. And it doesn't want to share its home.
The Red Bird    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11100 words. Published on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. A young samurai, guided by a mysterious red hawk, must choose between the woman he loves and the destiny he must fulfill to save his people.
Out of the Light    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11790 words. Published on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Multi-award winning author. Jan Mirocek thought he was finished hunting shape shifters. Then the bodies started appearing.
Scream Angel    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 15680 words. Published on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
AURORA AWARD WINNER The Angels. An alien race, and the source of Scream, a drug that turns pain to pleasure, grief to joy, horror to ecstacy. MCE gives its soldiers Scream. And tells them to kill. Not in war, but in a corporate strategy of xenocide. Jason Trelayne is such a soldier. MCE thought they controlled him because they controlled his Scream. Then he fell in love with an Angel
By Her Hand, She Draws You Down    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 9590 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist and Best New Horror story from a multi-award winning author. Cath, a beautiful sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws. Joe loves Cath, but as her hunger grows, so does his fear--fear that one day she may draw him down. "A haunting variant on the vampire legend with an understated and brutal ending." —Publishers Weekly
The Last Ride    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 10260 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
An urban fantasy story from a multi-award winning author. When a Valkyrie falls in love with a doomed soldier, she must choose between immortality and love. But her hardest choice still lies ahead.
A Bird in the Hand    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 10200 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself strapped to a table in a cage, a prisoner in a secret government lab. To win her freedom, she just needs to do one thing: prove she’s human.
Enlightenment    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 14320 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Jarrod helped Earth's brutal RIP force destroy an alien race. Now he's risking everything to honor the dying wish of the last survivor of that race. But what will happen to humanity if he succeeds? Can humans handle true enlightenment?
A Taste Sweet and Salty    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11230 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Multi-award winning author. The man named Stranger lived and died in the town with no name. Each day he lived. Each night he died. “...absolutely masterful...a kind of much, much creepier Quantum Leap" -Strange Horizons
Spirit Dance    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 12600 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
AURORA AWARD WINNER. Multi-award winning author. To save a friend, a shapeshifter must face the covert government agency that hunts his kind, as well as his own dark past and the woman he lost.
The Dancer at the Red Door    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 13140 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Alexander King first saw the Dancer on the day the street people began to glow...
State of Disorder    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11990 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist from a multi-award winnning author. A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish. "A neat twist on time travel and quantum physics." —Publishers Weekly
Nothing    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 6580 words. Published on March 30, 2011. Fiction.
Multi-award winning author. A woman tries in vain to convince those around her that the world is ending. Is she right…or is it just…nothing?
Radio Nowhere    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 13030 words. Published on March 30, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Jackie was dead. Liam wanted her back.
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by Van Gogh    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 17810 words. Published on March 30, 2011. Fiction.
Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Maroch, an ex-CIA operative still haunted by the death of his wife, is hired by a former colleague to use his remote viewing skills to search for lost paintings. But Maroch finds much more than any of them bargained for: a painting by Vincent van Gogh that can't exist, a woman who can talk to the dead artist…and a way to change the past.
What’s in a Name?    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 9800 words. Published on March 30, 2011. Fiction.
Hari is the greatest thief in the land. Hari steals jewel. Jewel curses Hari. Hari hires wizard to lift curse. Wizard summons demon. Demon eats wizard. Can Hari's day get any worse? Yep.
Going Down to Lucky Town    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 16230 words. Published on March 30, 2011. Fiction.
Multi-award winning author. Charlie the Pearl--life-long con man, gambler and absentee father--must choose between becoming the luckiest man alive and winning his daughter's love.
New Year's Eve    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11390 words. Published on March 29, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. A programmer's virtual girlfriend becomes a little too real after he discovers a bug in the world's most popular software--a bug that just may mean the end of the world as we know it.
Murphy's Law    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 11960 words. Published on March 29, 2011. Fiction.
Multi-award winning author. Dex wasn’t planning to save the human race from murderous alien hordes. Mostly, he was just trying to save his job...
Memories of the Dead Man    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 14570 words. Published on March 29, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
SF novelette from a multi-award winning author. A legendary hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between the love of the new family he has found and revenge for the one he lost.
Going Harvey in the Big House    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 15190 words. Published on March 29, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. In a house as big as the world, someone is finally going outside...
Doorways    by Douglas Smith
Price: $1.99 USD. 16260 words. Published on March 29, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. The house promised Jack wealth, fame, and revenge...if it didn’t kill him first.
Jigsaw    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 5760 words. Published on January 11, 2011. Fiction.
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Solve an ancient puzzle as big as a planet...or die. "A fun romp involving aliens and continental drift." —Publishers Weekly

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