“The characters are intriguing and the story beguiling. I would like to read more about these characters.” –SF Crowsnest Book Reviews

“A vivid and wonderfully written tale about Native Canadian spirits, in the vein of Thomas King.” –Challenging Destiny

“A wonderfully recounted story, with an excellent pace and a perfect ending.” –Bibliopolis

“Powerful, moving and not quite predictable (A+)” –Fantasy Book Critic

“A mini-epic about a young boy named Asai and the phoenix that saves him from death while his village is being raided… If you love Japanese and Samurai stories, this one will give you goose bumps.” –Tangent Online

“A superbly told, involving, and brilliantly paced short story, complete with an ending made more tragic by its inevitability… Worth the price of the issue.” –Tangent Online

“A spellbinding piece of writing set in a Japan-that-never-was that is both well-plotted and elegantly paced” –Strange Horizons

“I loved this tale. … It has the feel of a myth or legend about a boy who finds that his destiny is closely entwined with the destiny of a people. But rather than repeat a tale we’ve all read before, the author has written something subtly new. … Honestly, I could have read it [...]

“Going Harvey in the Big House” fed into my natural fears, suspicions, and all-round disillusionment with authority. Thereafter, I began an inquiry. I read Orwell’s 1984, Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Zamyatin’s We, Huxley’s Brave New World… “Going Harvey in the Big House” led me to places I thought I’d never be,…[Read more]

“Hands down, my favourite story … I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of a city that encompasses what we know of the known world. … Smith’s version, the ‘House,’ is well conceived, but as always, it’s his characters that drive the story. Big G is pitch perfect. Every aspect of his personality is just [...]

“Scream Angel was especially horrifying and compelling, and I wound up re-reading it again after I had finished the book.” –Fluidity of Time

“A dark and powerful story with a first line that sets the tone for what is to come: ‘They stopped beating Trelayne when they saw that he enjoyed it.’ (A++)” –Fantasy Book Critic

“The story has so many layers that I’m still sorting them out. And like an onion, I’m not sure if I’ll ever find the final layer.” –Tangent Online

“A visceral work a true pearl of the fantastic literature. Breath-taking.” –Café de Ontem

“…remind me of the reasons I love the author’s writing: his characterisation, attention to detail and recurring themes of love, faith and redemption.” –SF Crowsnest Reviews

“Smith describes a disturbingly plausible military application for the narcotic … The basic concept behind the drug strikes me as one of those rare ideas that seems at once so perfect and so natural that someone must have come up with it before; but if someone has, I haven’t heard about it, and regardless Smith [...]

“…the book’s most skillfully crafted story…a multi-layered tale about a circus that features a pair of ‘angels’ who have the ability to produce a drug that produces pleasure based on intensity of emotion. Factor in that the owner of the circus is in love with one of the angels as well as addicted to the [...]

“Familiar subjects…dealt with in an original form and with a final turn that will surprise you.” –Bibliopolis

“…a chilling, weird tale of an artist with a great hunger.” –The Haunted Weblog

“Haunting passages and scenes…” –Strange Horizons