Shambling Towards Hiroshima
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Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
Sturgeon Award winner Nebula and Hugo Award nominee It is the early summer of 1945, and war reigns in the Pacific Rim with no end in sight. Back in the States, Hollywood B-movie star Syms Thorley lives in a very different world, starring as the Frankenstein-like Corpuscula and Kha-Ton-Ra, the living mummy. But the U.S. Navy has a new role waiting for Thorley, the role of a lifetime that he could never have imagined. The top secret Knickerbocker Project is putting the finishing touches on the ultimate biological weapon: a breed of gigantic, fire-breathing, mutant iguanas engineered to stomp and burn cities on the Japanese mainland. The Navy calls upon Thorley to don a rubber suit and become the merciless Gorgantis and to star in a live drama that simulates the destruction of a miniature Japanese metropolis. If the demonstration succeeds, the Japanese will surrender, and many thousands of lives will be spared; if it fails, the horrible mutant lizards will be unleashed. One thing is certain: Syms Thorley must now give the most terrifyingly convincing performance of his life. In the dual traditions of Godzilla as a playful monster and a symbol of the dawn of the nuclear era, Shambling Towards Hiroshima unexpectedly blends the destruction of World War II with the halcyon pleasure of monster movies.Gary K. Wolfe is an Emeritus Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University and the author of Evaporating Genres: Studies on Weird Fiction and Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006, among other works. He has won multiple honors for his critical writing, including the British Science Fiction Society Award, the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award, the International Association for the Weird in the Arts' Outstanding Scholarship Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He co-hosts the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and writes frequent review essays for Locus magazine and the Chicago Tribune.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781892391841 |
| ISBN 10 | 1892391848 |
| Title | Shambling Towards Hiroshima |
| Author | James Morrow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Tachyon Publications |
| Year published | 2009-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 170 |
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