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Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: Omnibus No. 1 by [Daniel Arthur Smith, Will Swardstrom, A.K. Meek, S. Elliot Brandis, Hank Garner, Bob Williams, Jon Frater, Ernie Howard, Jason Anspach]

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Nominated in the P & E Readers' Poll for Best Fiction e-zine published in 2016!

This Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Eighteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from Nine of todays top speculative fiction writers.

Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.

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July 2, 2016
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Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror in the short story format. And it's a bargain. Each monthly issue has three-to-five sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales from today's top speculative fiction writers.
These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01HWU87EG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt Smith Ltd (July 2, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 2, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 952 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 165 pages
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Daniel Arthur Smith is a USA Today bestselling author. His titles include Spectral Shift, Hugh Howey Lives, The Cathari Treasure, The Somali Deception, and a few other novels and short stories. He also curates the phenomenal short fiction series Tales from the Canyons of the Damned and Frontiers of Speculative Fiction.
He was raised in Michigan and graduated from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy, with focus on cognitive science, meta-physics, and comparative religion.  He began his career as a bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, teacher, and then became a technologist and futurist for the Fortune 100 across the Americas and Europe.
Daniel has traveled to over 300 cities in 22 countries, residing in Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, Prague, Crete, and now writes in Manhattan where he lives with his wife and young sons.
For more information, visit danielarthursmith.com
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Will Swardstrom
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Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.
He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.
He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.
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Stories to muse the evening away with

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2020

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Love this kind of short story. No gore but each one, a mystery, or strange as events unfold.. A few leave you thinking , wondering.

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J C G

Recommended!

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017

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I snagged this anthology during a .99 cent sale and I'm glad I did! Loved these stories, in particular Bob Williams' SMOKE.

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Good Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2019

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The first two stories in this series were so weird, and it kept going in that vein. I would suggest that you don't read this book at night.

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Dallas Mayer

Must read and great value

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019

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Great read as are any books by Ernie Howard

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Jennifer Posner

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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2017

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Kind Of Boring

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Chris Hawks

Eh.

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016

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This omnibus collects the first 5 issues of the Canyons of the Damned pulp horror series. Overall, it was far from terrible, but not great. Daniel Arthur Smith's stories (which comprise the majority of this collection) all deal with the occurrence and aftermath of a Lovecraftian takeover of New York City; it's interesting how they build on each other to form a larger picture, but on their own they're really little more than bleak vignettes. Barring Jon Frater's "Sole Survivor" (which takes place in Smith's world), the other authors all do their own thing. Most of these are fairly unremarkable, but are couple a worth mentioning:

• Jason Anspach's "Ledge Town" is the standout story of the entire collection. Decently written, with some good worldbuilding and a nice twist at the end.
• Honorable mentions include S. Elliot Brandis's "Bloom" and Will Swardstrom's "Razor", the latter of which is genuinely creepy. Good stuff.
• The collection unfortunately ends on the worst of the batch, Bob Williams's "Magenta", which is poorly written, poorly edited (including missing words, repeated words, and inconsistently-spelled names) and just altogether cringe-worthy—though the seed at the heart of the story is a decent one.

I got it for $3 on Kindle, which feels maybe a little high, but I guess not unreasonable, considering I'd pay that much to buy the three stories I liked individually (which can be found in the third, fourth, and fifth issues, respectively.)

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Daniel Arthur Smith is a pioneer in the realm of Slipstream Fiction

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2017

Anthologies are not new to me, neither are tales of sci-fi, space, fantasy and speculative fiction. Yet, the thought of reading a sort of 'Flash-Fiction', or, 'Slipstream' fiction is fascinating to me. With many being almost shorter than a 'short story', their appeal is partially in that they are very concise. It's not an easy thing, for some, to speak or write succinctly, I certainly have a hard time accomplishing it. Yet the truly short short-story fulfills a place in my world. It allows me to read while waiting for the water to heat for my tea, it allows me to read while standing by the washer waiting for the spin cycle to finish. Slipstream fiction permits something for me to do, to engage in, besides just people watching when standing in any line, or waiting for my name to be called at various offices I have had business dealings with.

It appears to me that Daniel Arthur Smith is a pioneer in this realm. The format of the 'Canyons of the Damned' books are akin to how Tor-dot-com as well as other online magazines - and some from brick and mortar stores - produce mags often titled "Best Of" as a specialty magazine or book to acknowledge or draw attention to some of the best from within their past published books. While some of these may be found in other anthologies or as stories published by the authors, many are new to this series or are a continuation of a story by the individual author.

While it would be near-to-impossible to satisfy all the readers all of the time, no matter what book is being read, this may be substantially most truthful when reading an anthology. Even with that truth, I believe anyone who loves Flash Fiction/Slipstream Fiction, and Science Fiction Magazines will find stories within these volumes that tickle their fancy. I have found that almost all of the stories within this Omnibus helped to pass time in an enjoyable fashion. I can't complain; the slim few I didn't enjoy as much as the others are some that may prove to be the next reader's favorite in the bunch. I plan on continuing to read these stories, they have filled a void in my life that I hadn't even known existed until I read the first book.

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