Chimerascope

"Sixteen short 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 addiction to a dinner where a man loses everything."@en
"Chimerascope - a story of many parts: 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 man is born each day into a new life - only to die each night; a sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity; and a house as big as the world. These are some of the stories you will encounter in Chimerascope, the first full collection of short fiction from award-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith. Sixteen engaging 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."