Speculative Fiction
Chris
Bailey-Smith
Worlds built at the edge of what is known.
Stories that live in the space between.
Featured Work
Prodigal Son
The Elementals
For one thousand years the Elemental Lords have been bound in chains, their gift to mankind bound to a chosen few, the nobility. Commoners are born with little or no power and die in poverty or in servitude to the whims of the ever more power hungry nobility.
Then Drandal Widdon emerges.
An Emergent born to a family bound in service, he is born to break the chains that bind — he wields not one element, but five. He is what the prophecy promised and what the nobles fear most: the Prodigal Son, come to shatter a millennium of bondage and restore balance to a world long out of balance.
Discover the WorldWorlds to Explore
Across the Spectrum of the Impossible
Epic Fantasy
Ancient powers, bound gods, and the commoners brave enough to defy them. The Elementals and Gaia Chained.
Dark Urban Fantasy
The world you know hides something older and darker beneath its streets. The Bloodborne & Converted and the world beneath.
Science Fiction
Futures forged from the choices we make today. Gene Wars and Raising Tides explore what comes after the world we know ends.
Short Fiction
Fairy tales with teeth. Dark urban fables. Stories that remind us that our choices have consequences.
The Author
Stories that live at the edge of what's possible
Chris Bailey-Smith writes across the full breadth of speculative fiction — from epic fantasy to hard science fiction to the dark urban worlds hiding just beneath our own. His work is driven by a single question: what happens to ordinary people when the extraordinary becomes unavoidable?
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