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The United States government discovers, to its horror, that the creatures featured in animated cartoons are not fabrications but real beings. Fearing the social and political consequences of the discovery being made public, they proceed to exile them off Earth to another planet. However, things do not go according to plan... A new novel from Canadian author David Perlmutter
Astounding stories of absurd size and impossible dimension! Mammoth mega-fauna! Apocalyptic adventure! Surreal suspense! Catastrophic comedy! Monstrous metaphysics! Featuring original fiction from around the world and a special film history by Cinescape's Brian Thomas. Winner of the Australian Speculative Fiction Ditmar Award for Best Collection 2005.
Horror stories by D.G. Valdron, author of ‘The Mermaid's Tale,’ ‘Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs’ and ‘There Are No Doors in Dark Places.’ ‘The Squad,’ about the army enlisting the men in the masks, horror movie slashers as unstoppable, uncontrollable soldiers; ‘Piggyback’ about the ultimate serial killer; ‘The First Men,’ a Lovecraftian tribute; ‘Silence’ about a thief hiding in the home of a killer; ‘Moonwalker’ and a cyberpunk apocalypse; ‘The Viruses of Quiet Desperation’ about love, choices and things beyond the universe; ‘Time in a Bottle,’ a nondescript physics lab has captured the ultimate monster; ‘Secrets’ where a man accidentally receives a magazine for serial killers; ‘Centipedes’ where a trans-dimensional incursion brings a terrifying response, and many, many more. Melancholy horror, chilling horror, dark visions
THE MERMAID’S TALE In a city of majesty and brutality, of warring races and fragile alliances, a sacred Mermaid has been brutally murdered. An abomination, a soulless Orc is summoned to hunt the killer. As the world around the Orc drifts into war and madness, her search for justice leads her on a journey to discover redemption and even beauty in the midst of chaos. "He said the Arukh only had one word. It was their word for rage and for pain, for fighting and dying. It was a word spoken in sorrow and anger. It was the word they said to a world that didn't want them, that had no place for them. It was loneliness and defiance and in the end it was sorrow and surrender. 'Arrah' he told me, it...
Dawn of Cthulthu - A trilogy of speculative fiction essays, exploring the strange corners of the human imagination, mixing genuine science, history and biology with fictional creations. On the Worship of Dark and Monstrous Gods - a fictional chronicle of the history of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Cult, mixed and merged with genuine history, revealing the Cult's humble origins as a trading expedition in the Egyptian New Kingdom, thirty-five hundred years ago, through its break with Egypt, expansion into the Red Sea and along the coasts of the Indian Ocean, the emergence of Azathoth, Yog Sothoth and other Gods, conflicts with Buddhism and Islam. and its struggles with Empires and Civilisations, and fo...
Welcome to the first (but not the last) Pirate's History of Doctor Who. What's a Pirate's History, you ask? Well, there's the official, sanitized, orderly histories that are approved by and all about the powers that be. Then there are the Pirate's histories, the things that they don't want you to know about, or that they don't care about, things that are great and marvellous and intriguing... but unapproved. It's a history of secret and forgotten corners of the Whoniverse. Thrill to the story of the first Woman Doctor, Barbara Benedetti, whose four adventures during the end of the Colin Baker era and the start of the McCoy reign, rivalled the official BBC in quality, and launched an entire s...
The final volume of the Pirate Histories of Doctor Who, this chronicle brings us up to the modern era with explorations of Doctor Who animation from short fan films of the 1970s, to the modern BBC re-animations of classic series. We'll also discover the history of Doctor Who audio adventures, fan created, official BBC and the audio universes of BBV and Big Finish. And we’ll tour the most amazing fan films leading up to the revival, some of them starring actual Doctors like Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, through the blazing new wave of modern productions including Trident, Fire and Ice, How to Stop a Time Lord, and series like DW2012 and Velocity. If you're a casual fan of Doctor Who, these books will blow your mind, and if you're a hard core fan, you'll love this cosmic tour de force and maybe even discover a few new things.
Animation has been part of television since the start of the medium but it has rarely received unbiased recognition from media scholars. More often, it has been ridiculed for supposedly poor technical quality, accused of trafficking in violence aimed at children, and neglected for indulging in vulgar behavior. These accusations are often made categorically, out of prejudice or ignorance, with little attempt to understand the importance of each program on its own terms. This book takes a serious look at the whole genre of television animation, from the early themes and practices through the evolution of the art to the present day. Examining the productions of individual studios and producers,...
From the author of ‘Dawn of Cthulhu,’ ‘‘Axis of Andes,' and 'The Bear Cavalry' comes a quartet of exotic novellas that mix and merge strange worlds of fiction and fact. ‘The Fall of Atlantis’ constructs a plausible Atlantis, from geological uplift, to occupation, civilization and the final extinction of its inhabitants. ‘The Retroverse, An Accidental Cinematic Universe,’ explores a secret history of outer space in the hidden patterns and connections between 1950’s and 60’s sci fi movies. ‘When the Romans Sailed to America,’ develops an alternate where the discovery of coffee leads Phoenicians and Romans to the New World; and ‘A Different Greenland, Where the Ice Never Came’ land, explores a strange lost world that never was, a land of mammoths and vikings, and a young civilization that sails the shores of an immense central sea.
During the 2010s, science fiction's immortal adversaries King Kong and Godzilla, representing our conflicts per Carl Sagan's "dream dragons" analogy, made comebacks in American cinema. The blockbuster Kaiju resurged onto the screen, depicting these protectors of an Earth plagued by mankind's hubris and folly. With Earth's future hanging in the balance, their climactic 2021 staging settled a score between the two giant monsters, resolving Toho's classic 1963 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. As formidable creatures emerging from Time's Tomb on Mother Earth, metaphorical Kong and Godzilla are considered here in light of new millennial environmentalism's stark reality. This book, nostalgic in tone, explores the meaning of Kong and Godzilla as planetary saviors--titanic protectors of a theoretical "living Earth" Gaia--defending the globe from a prehistoric plague of adversaries.