A Taste Sweet and Salty

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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:
The man known only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name. Each day he lived. And each night he died…

REVIEWS:
"...absolutely masterful...a kind of much, much creepier Quantum Leap."
—Strange Horizons

"Another superb story … unpredictable and with a great ending. "
—Fantasy Book Critic

"...wonderful...has a taste that lingers..."
—SF Crowsnest

"A charming tale about a man cursed to die every day and be reborn as someone else."
—SFRevu

"A fascinating fabulist premise..."
—Internet Review of SF

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 , Impossibilia, , and just recently, La Danse des Esprits .

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.