A Bird in the Hand(2011)

Douglas Smith

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 Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do…is prove that she’s human. If you enjoy shape-shifter and conspiracy stories, you'll enjoy this tale. “It's a very interesting turn-around story, in which our expectations are upended at the last minute. ...a good read, and sadly, far too relevant to our own present world.” —The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf “...great fun to read” —Dreams and Speculations “...has a woman fed chemicals to prove whether she’s human or a shape-shifter, which is also rather harrowing but well worth reading to see where it will end.” —SF Crowsnest Reviews ABOUT THE 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 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.