Jigsaw
Douglas Smith
language
(Spiral Path Books, Jan. 11, 2011)
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 JournalDESCRIPTION: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 with charted wormholes in Sol System. Found with incredibly ancient yet perfectly functioning Wormer technology.Five years later, humanity is exploring the stars.But now something has gone wrong with the perfect Wormer technology. The orbit of the wormship, The Johannes Kepler, is decaying, and Cassie Morant, ship geologist, has less than twenty-four hours to solve a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle--or the entire crew will die. Cassie’s good at puzzles, but this one has a piece missing. A big piece.Now Cassie has one last chance to save the ship and the man she loves. But time’s running out…REVIEWS:"...a fun romp." —Publishers Weekly"...reawakened the child in me who loved to watch Star Trek characters solve the problems of mysterious races on faraway worlds. It's a nicely done puzzle-story, with a clever solution..." —Nancy Fulda"A clever story whose protagonist is as reliant on her innate curiosity and fondness for puzzles as her intelligence. It provides added depth that one can miss in short fiction." —Tangent Online"…reads very, very well in the traditional derring-do of sf adventures (A+)" —Fantasy Book Critic"A darkly amusing look at what can go wrong when humans use alien technology they don't fully understand." —infinityplus"Fast-paced...with a clever puzzle." —Tangent OnlineABOUT 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.