Lisa Smedman is one of Canada's most prolific speculative fiction writers. She has written a number of novels for the Shadowrun and D&D Forgotten Realms worlds, as well as creating original worlds of her own. Weird Jam is a collection of 11 of her original stories that span a wide range of settings and characters. The stories include:
- A couple escaping slavery by hot air balloon, who must outfox a trickster god.
A trio of venomous killers in a standoff in ancient Vietnam.
A wandering mechant sells salvation in fascist Italy, but at a terrible price.
A woman and a man, both with much to hide, meet at a "flea circus" and must decide how much of their lives to share.
Diminuative fey folk known as "knockers," laboring in a turn-of-the-century coal mine,.must decide where they stand during a miners' strike.
A burglar works to crack a safe on board a train, while outside a terrible doom approaches.
A fleeing couple are trapped by a monster from Mayan mythology.
A ghost, aided by his dog, must solve his own murder.
A Victorian-era collector of mythological creatures must deal with a strange infant left on his doorstep.
An Amazon girl looking for adventure is told a fantastic cautionary tale.
A cursed paper punch tears holes in the fabric of reality.
Each of the stories is very different, but all have a touch of the strange, the fantastic, the unknown -- the weird "jam" that holds this collection together.
Genre: Science Fiction
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