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 multi-award winning author 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. Chimerascope includes the following stories: Scream Angel The Red Bird By Her Hand, She Draws You Down New Year's Eve Out of the Light State of Disorder The Boys Are Back in Town Symphony Enlightenment Nothing Jigsaw Going Harvey in the Big House The Last Ride The Dancer at the Red Door A Taste Sweet and Salty Memories of the Dead Man