Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II - Couverture souple

Herz, Henry

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ISBN 13 : 9798874748432

Editeur : Blackstone Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets--both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju?

This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the "unreality" of war itself. Each story--and two poems--feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history. Dragons rise and fall, witches cast deadly spells, mermaids reroute torpedoes, and all manner of "monsters" intervene for better or worse in the global turmoil of World War II.

Together, Combat Monsters challenge the very definition of monstrous, with the brutality of war as a sobering backdrop.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Henry Herz has authored fourteen picture books and edited eight anthologies for Albert Whitman & Co., Blackstone Publishing, and others. His short stories have been published by Weird Tales, Baen Books, Pseudopod, Metastellar, Titan Books, Highlights for Children, and Ladybug magazine. He holds a BS in engineering from Cornell University, an MS in engineering from George Washington University, and an MA in political science from Georgetown University.

Joshua Palmatier was born in Coudersport, PA, but since his father was in the military he moved around. A lot. He started writing science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories in the eighth grade, and hasn't stopped writing since. He now resides in upstate New York, where he teaches mathematics at the State University of New York.

Jane Yolen has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. She has written over three hundred books, including Owl Moon and The Devil's Arithmetic. She splits her time between Massachusetts and Scotland.

Mary Fan is the author of several novels, including Artificial Absolutes and Starswept, both of which have received praise from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She is also coeditor of the independently published Brave New Girls anthologies, which are aimed at encouraging girls to explore STEM fields. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections as well as Writing Speculative Fiction. Her books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows were finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and she has been nominated for, or has won awards, including the Foreword Indies Award, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise Fellowship, Nommo Award, and others. Bacon's creative work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy magazine, Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackstone Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798874748432
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Herz Henry
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible