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Douglas Smith

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Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

Douglas Smith Books

Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd edition) book cover

Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd edition)

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The Lost Expedition book cover

The Lost Expedition

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The Crystal Key book cover

The Crystal Key

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The Story of a Life book cover

The Story of a Life

Konstantin Paustovsky
The Hollow Boys book cover

The Hollow Boys

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Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship Will Travel book cover

Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship Will Travel

Tracy Cooper-Posey
The Rising Behemoth book cover

The Rising Behemoth

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The Russian Job book cover

The Russian Job

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The Last of a Thing book cover

The Last of a Thing

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Tales of the Sunrise Lands: Anthology of Fantasy Japan book cover

Tales of the Sunrise Lands: Anthology of Fantasy Japan

Richard Parks
Rasputin book cover

Rasputin

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Fiddleheads book cover

Fiddleheads

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Dream Flight book cover

Dream Flight

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The Walker of the Shifting Borderland book cover

The Walker of the Shifting Borderland

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Chimerascope book cover

Chimerascope

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The Black Don Part 1 book cover

The Black Don Part 1

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My Life and Times book cover

My Life and Times

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The Wolf at the End of the World book cover

The Wolf at the End of the World

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Impossibilia book cover

Impossibilia

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Former People book cover

Former People

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