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001 2014025369
003 DLC
005 20151024082328.0
008 140721s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2014025369
020 $a9781476736990 (paperback)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN6120.95.S33$bB34 2014
082 00 $a813/.087608$223
084 $aFIC028000$aFIC028040$aFIC015000$2bisacsh
245 04 $aThe Baen big book of monsters /$cedited by Hank Davis.
264 1 $aRiverdale, NY :$bBaen,$c[2014]
300 $a479 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Trade Paperback Halloween-themed BIG MONSTER anthology. Featuring a mix of classic science fiction reprints and original stories all filled with: REALLY BIG MONSTERS! Includes legends such as Arthur C. Clark, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, David Drake and more, as well as Baen regulars New York Times best seller Larry Correia, Wen Spencer, Sarah A. Hoyt, and more. SIZE MATTERS From the dragons of legend to Jack the Giant Killer's colleague to King Kong and Godzilla, people have found the idea of giant creatures both scary and fascinating. Why so many should find accounts of a critter big enough to gulp down a puny human like an insignificantly small hor d'oeuvre or step on said human and leave a grease spot might be explained by the psychologists, but such yarns are undeniable fun, and here's a book crammed full of things that you can't outrun because they take big steps, by writers with equally large reputations, including: David Drake, best-selling author of the Hammer's Slammers and RCN series, describes the far future plight of an unusual descendant of present-day humans, who's being pursued by the descendants of another species, which are much larger than they were in our time. Robert Bloch, winner of the Hugo award and the lifetime achievement award of the World Fantasy Convention, and author of the classic horror novel Psycho, introduces an unusual orphan and aspiring thespian who was much more than he seemed and was destined to play the biggest role of anyone's lifetime. Philip Wylie, co-author of the SF classic, When Worlds Collide and other imaginative works, tells of the arrival of a very, very tall giant on Earth and what happened next, in a sharp-edged satiric tale. Murray Leinster, known as the Dean of Science Fiction Writers, spins a yarn of a stranded starship whose crew must get replacement parts from an abandoned outpost in order to take off again--if they can reach the outpost through the swarming gigantic insect life of the planet. H.P. Lovecraft, renowned master of horror, is on board with a story of a star-spawned thing which was not only huge, but invisible as well. Plus all-new stories by New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia, and award-winning authors Sarah A. Hoyt and Wen Spencer. And much more. About some of the contributors: "[David Drake is] a superb storyteller." --Library Journal "[Robert] Bloch has become a virtual fixture on the popular culture landscape." --Publishers Weekly "Don't plan on getting anything else done if you start a Wen Spencer novel; they are exceedingly hard to put down!" --Catherine Asaro, Nebula Award winning author "[Sarah A. Hoyt's science fiction is] exciting and appealing. so fast-paced. the reader will reach escape velocity." --Kevin J. Anderson "[H.P. Lovecraft was] the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." --Stephen King"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"From the dragons of legend to Jack the Giant Killer's colleague to King Kong and Godzilla, people have found the idea of giant creatures both scary and fascinating. Here's a book crammed full of large things that you can't outrun by such writers as David Drake, Robert Bloch, Philip Wylie, Murray Leinster, H.P. Lovecraft, Larry Correia, Wen Spencer and more"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aMonsters$vFiction.
650 0 $aGiants$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Science Fiction / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Science Fiction / Short Stories.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Horror.$2bisacsh
650 0 $aScience fiction, American.
650 0 $aHorror fiction, American.
700 1 $aDavis, Hank,$d1944-$eeditor.