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 · Book One
One thousand years after the Elemental Lords were bound in chains of their own priests' making, magic belongs to the nobility — locked behind the ancient ritual known as the Great Working. Commoners are born with little or no power, and die in poverty or servitude to the nobility.
Then Drandal Widdon emerges.
An Emergent born of nothing, he breaks the chains of the Great Working — and 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 order.
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 series 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 are over before you realize you've been changed by them.
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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