Douglas Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Scarecrow

    Always, in our best poetry, the hovering care for place. Douglas Smith hears our landscape; he hears the way it resounds in the people who travel its subtle and comp[lex surface. Two people in a car, speeding across boundaries, hear images echoed as ...

  • What's in a Name?

    in Treachery and Treason

    A collection of stories focusing on the most devious side of human nature includes the work of William C. Dietz, Esther Friesner, Dennis L. McKiernan, Irene Radford, Anne Bishop, and others. Original....

  • Chimerascope

    Chimerascope a story of many parts: A dinner conversationtakes three lifetimes to finish; a geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-oldpuzzle to save her crew; the hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between loveand revenge; a man is born each day int...

  • Jigsaw

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. 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...

  • A Bird in the Hand

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 t...

  • Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by Van Gogh

    Maroch, an expert in remote viewing and ex-CIA, reluctantly agrees to coach a beautiful young woman "viewer," who bears an uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, in a scheme to locate lost paintings by Vincent van Gogh, setting off a chai...

  • The Boys Are Back in Town

    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 ends when Pop drops in. And the Fat...

  • By Her Hand, She Draws You Down

    Aurora Award Finalist and Best New Horror selection from a multi-award winning author.*** Now an award-winning independent film ***Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of h...

  • The Dancer at the Red Door

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author.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 game. An...



  • Doorways

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 ...

  • Enlightenment

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. 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 not on...

  • Going Down to Lucky Town

    Multi-award winning author. 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 in the world tha...

  • Going Harvey in the Big House

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 ...

  • The Last Ride

    An urban fantasy story from a multi-award winning 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...

  • Memories of the Dead Man

    Multi-award winning author.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 legendary hero of th...

  • Murphy's Law

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 ...

  • New Year's Eve

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 ...

  • Nothing

    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 fiction." -- Library Journal"His stories ar...

  • Out of the Light

    Multi-award winning 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 you...



  • Radio Nowhere

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 ...

  • The Red Bird

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning 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 ...

  • Scream Angel

    AURORA AWARD WINNER from a multi-award Winning Author. 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 not on the ple...

  • State of Disorder

    Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author.When James Mackaby, respected scholar, husband and father, accepts a dinner invitation from an old rival who has fallen on hard times, he has no idea that revenge is on the menu. During th...

  • Symphony

    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. Humanity has to find a new home--and time is running out. It...

  • A Taste Sweet and Salty

    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 Quantum Leap: the amnesiac protagonist awakes i...

  • Former People

  • The Wolf at the End of the World

    A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.

    The debut novel from the multi-award winning author that Library Journal describes ...

  • Impossibilia

    FINALIST FOR THE AURORA AWARD -- Best Collection

    "There are three stories in this collection, and they reach from van Gogh's rural France to the classic travelling fair to the far lost forest, and from timeshift to shapeshift to the activity...

  • The Walker of the Shifting Borderland

    AURORA AWARD WINNERThe 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 key to the balance be...



  • The Transcendence of Our Nature

    This book is a literary journey, ranging from non-fiction to personal essays to fiction. The characters deal with loss, personal regret and other everyday experiences that most people deal with at least once in their lives. With these familiar charac...

  • War Games

    The saga continues…Donald “Donny Mega” Marshall has stepped out of his grandfather’s shadow and started his own legacy. With his loyal men he has lead the Marshall Family to the pinnacle of Capitol City’s underworld. But questions loom larg...

  • Dream Flight

    A Heroka story (sequel to "A Bird in the Hand")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 mutual love fo...

  • Fiddleheads

    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 to change all of that. He has a plan to find his br...

  • Spirit Dance

    AURORA AWARD WINNER.Multi-award winning 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...

  • The Last of a Thing

    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.Epic fantasy, short storyI have read enough by this...

  • Resilient

    Senecus, a soldier of the Roman Ninth Legion, has been turned into an immortal. He live his days quietly through history, becoming a vigilante when needed to protect those around him. In current times he lives in Amsterdam and works as an investor, b...

  • The Hollow Boys

    Winner of the 2023 Aurora Award for Best YA NovelWinner of the 2023 Juried IAP Award for Best YA NovelVanishing street kids. An ancient evil. The end of the world. Our only hope? A hero who can't leave home.At seventeen, Will Dreycott is a superhero....

  • River Forged

    Senecus needs to curb his impulse to kill.Since becoming immortal after the destruction of the Roman Ninth Legion he's kept his secrets. Including the bad habit of killing vile humans.Now... he wants to be a better man. Senecus longs to reconnect wit...

  • The Crystal Key

    Sequel to the AURORA AWARD WINNER and juried IAP AWARD WINNER, The Hollow BoysWill Dreycott is the Dream Rider, the agoraphobic teenage superhero who can walk in our dreams but never in the streets of his city. Case is his girlfriend, a survivor of t...



  • The Lost Expedition

    The Thrilling Conclusion to the Multi-Award-Winning TrilogyWill is the Dream Rider, the superhero who walks in our dreams but never in the streets of his own city. Case is his girlfriend, a survivor of those streets who hears voices warning her of da...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Smith has published 40 books.

Douglas Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lost Expedition, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Douglas Smith, Scarecrow, was published in January 1980.

No. Douglas Smith does not write books in series.
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