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Impossibilia (PS Showcase) [Hardcover]

Douglas Smith (Author)
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PS Showcase October 2008
We all have things we hide away inside—secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to. In that respect, the characters we meet in Douglas Smith's Impossibilia are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little... different.

A dead wife that won't leave. A wolf. 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 an ultimate gamble 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 a child. But love.
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"Complex and powerfully emotional stories couched in deft and smooth prose. ... [Smith deserves] to be known to by a very wide audience indeed." --Dead Reckonings Review Magazine

"The writing is superb. Douglas Smith is an artisan, and his stories beautifully crafted. ... In my search for the perfect short story, the three in this volume certainly qualify." --SF Crowsnest Reviews

"Three amazing stories that are so unusual and beautiful that no other name than Impossibilia could possibly describe this collection." --Mass Movement Magazine

"A book that ably demonstrates what Smith is capable of as a writer, added to which, anyone who references Springsteen songs in their titles is going to get the thumbs up from me." --Black Static Magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

We all have things we hide away inside--secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to.

In that respect, the characters we meet in Douglas Smith's Impossibilia are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little... different.

A dead wife that won't leave. A wolf. 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 an ultimate gamble 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 a child. But love.

So maybe they aren't that different from us after all... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: PS Publishing; Limited signed ed edition (October 2008)
  • ISBN-10: 184863000X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1848630000
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,698,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"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 of Hominids and FlashForward

"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 short story sales to professional markets in thirty countries and two dozen languages.

He has published three short story collections: Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, 2010), Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, 2008), and La Danse des Esprits (Dreampress, 2011), a fantasy collection translated and published in France.

Doug has twice won Canada's Aurora Award for speculative fiction, and has been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Bookies Award, and the juried Sunburst Award.

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.

Website: smithwriter.com

SELECTED REVIEWS

"Smith's writing, evocative yet understated, gracefully brings to life his imagined realms." -- Quill and Quire *Starred Review*

"Smith paints his worlds so well that you are transported within a paragraph or two and remain in transit until the story ends." --Broken Pencil, The Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts

"Echoes of Stephen King, Richard Matheson, and Clive Barker haunt the halls of Smith's work, but the end result is completely original, and always enthralling." --Cory Redekop

"Douglas Smith is an extraordinary author whom every lover of quality speculative fiction should read." --Fantasy Book Critic

"Smith is definitely an author who deserves to be more widely read." --Strange Horizons

"I've yet to read a work of his that wasn't beautifully written, but more than that, his stories resonate with a deep understanding of the human condition as well as a characteristic wry wonder... Stories you can't forget, even years later." --Julie Czerneda, award-winning author and editor

"An ambitious and adventurous new writer." --Gardner Dozois, author and editor

"Smith is a master of beginnings ... some of the most well-crafted hooks you'll find anywhere: deft introductions to the characters and their not-quite-familiar worlds packed into just a sentence or two that draw the reader in. As for the endings ... Smith's tendency is to forego the shocking twist for endings that feel satisfying and right, a trade-off that I'll take any day." --Canadian Science Fiction Reviews

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's all about heart, February 13, 2011
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Douglas Smith has heart. You can feel it in every one of his stories. Reading Impossibilia is like taking a journey through the breadth and depth of human emotion. Love, loss, yearning, comfort, pain -- it's all from the heart. His characters are at once so unique and so universal that you can't help but feel for them. Yes, there are great ideas and fascinating concepts. Yes, the plots will keep you turning pages. But for me, it was the simple connections between people that kept me coming back. I highly recommend this collection!
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