Jigsaw (Kindle Edition)
By Douglas Smith
Review & Description
Jigsaw
by Douglas Smith
Solve an ancient puzzle as big as a planet…or die.
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 right now, Cassie Morant, ship geologist on the Johannes Kepler wormship, wishes that she was back on Earth in her tiny apartment, lost in one of her beloved jigsaw puzzles. Because that perfect Wormer technology is perfect no more.
Something has gone wrong. The Kepler’s orbit is decaying, and Cassie 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…
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Praise for this 2005 Aurora Award Finalist:
"...a fun romp involving aliens and continental drift."
—Publishers Weekly, 2010
"...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, 2008
“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, 2005
"…reads very, very well in the traditional derring-do of sf adventures … shows the scope of the author's range and another favorite of mine [in Chimerascope] (A+)"
—Fantasy Book Critic, 2010
“A darkly amusing look at what can go wrong when humans use alien technology they don't fully understand.”
—Elizabeth Barrette, infinityplus, 2004
“Fast-paced...with a clever puzzle.”
— Tangent Online, 2004
~~~
About Doug:
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
Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author of speculative fiction, with over a hundred story sales in twenty-nine countries and twenty-four languages around the world, including InterZone, Amazing Stories, Cicada, Baen's Universe, Weird Tales, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Postscripts, On Spec, and The Third Alternative (now Black Static), as well as anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW, Meisha Merlin, and others.
Doug has two published short story collections. Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, 2010) contains sixteen stories, including an Aurora winner, a Best New Horror selection, and nine Aurora Award finalists. Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, UK, 2008) was an Aurora finalist and contains three novelettes, including an Aurora winner and an Aurora finalist.
Doug was a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, and has twice won the Aurora Award for best SF&F short fiction by a Canadian. He’s been an Aurora finalist seventeen times and has numerous honourable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
In 2010, an independent film producer released a short film based on his story "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down."
www.smithwriter.com
twitter.com/dougsmithwriter
Goodreads author page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3255974.Douglas_Smith
~~~
Cover art by Jean-Pierre Normand
(from original illustration for “Jigsaw” in Odyssey anthology}
Jigsaw
by Douglas Smith
Solve an ancient puzzle as big as a planet…or die.
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 right now, Cassie Morant, ship geologist on the Johannes Kepler wormship, wishes that she was back on Earth in her tiny apartment, lost in one of her beloved jigsaw puzzles. Because that perfect Wormer technology is perfect no more.
Something has gone wrong. The Kepler’s orbit is decaying, and Cassie 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…
~~~
Praise for this 2005 Aurora Award Finalist:
"...a fun romp involving aliens and continental drift."
—Publishers Weekly, 2010
"...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, 2008
“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, 2005
"…reads very, very well in the traditional derring-do of sf adventures … shows the scope of the author's range and another favorite of mine [in Chimerascope] (A+)"
—Fantasy Book Critic, 2010
“A darkly amusing look at what can go wrong when humans use alien technology they don't fully understand.”
—Elizabeth Barrette, infinityplus, 2004
“Fast-paced...with a clever puzzle.”
— Tangent Online, 2004
~~~
About Doug:
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
Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author of speculative fiction, with over a hundred story sales in twenty-nine countries and twenty-four languages around the world, including InterZone, Amazing Stories, Cicada, Baen's Universe, Weird Tales, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Postscripts, On Spec, and The Third Alternative (now Black Static), as well as anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW, Meisha Merlin, and others.
Doug has two published short story collections. Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, 2010) contains sixteen stories, including an Aurora winner, a Best New Horror selection, and nine Aurora Award finalists. Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, UK, 2008) was an Aurora finalist and contains three novelettes, including an Aurora winner and an Aurora finalist.
Doug was a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, and has twice won the Aurora Award for best SF&F short fiction by a Canadian. He’s been an Aurora finalist seventeen times and has numerous honourable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
In 2010, an independent film producer released a short film based on his story "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down."
www.smithwriter.com
twitter.com/dougsmithwriter
Goodreads author page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3255974.Douglas_Smith
~~~
Cover art by Jean-Pierre Normand
(from original illustration for “Jigsaw” in Odyssey anthology}
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