Murphy's Law
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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 trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think."
—Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids and FlashForward
"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice."
—Charles de Lint
"One of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."
—Library Journal
DESCRIPTION:
As First Officer on the part passenger ship, part space freighter, The Fiscal Restraint, Dex figures he knows all there is to know about “Murphy’s Law”: if anything can go wrong, it will. And on the perpetually under-staffed, under-funded Restraint, it generally does.
But he never expected to actually meet Murphy.
The real Murphy.
REVIEWS:
"Smith showcases his talent for creating strong characters who are believable and sympathetic -- even when they inhabit an absurd world. ... A hilarious, yet poignant read."
—Rainbow Dragon Recommends
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Doug is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, with over a million words of fiction sold and over 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, Canada, 2010), Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, UK, 2008), and just recently, La Danse des Esprits (Dreampress, France, 2011).
Doug has twice won Canada's Aurora Award for speculative fiction, and have been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's Bookies Award, and the juried Sunburst Award.
Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.
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