Cirrus@Austlit

The third anthology in the Daikaiju (Giant Monsters) series, Giant Monsters vs the World comprises stories of impossible dimension, startling invention and big-budget spectacle by an international line-up of authors.

Non-Australian contributors are: Steven Savile, Tony Frazier, Michael Bogue, Mikel Trimm, Kiel Stuart, Nick Fox and John Heeder, Richard A. Becker, and Alys Sterling.

'Giant monsters whose every roar and footstep shakes the earth, whose simple stroll through a city wreaks havoc: KAIJU!

'And even though humankind has never really seen such monsters - we tremble at the thought of them and love to shiver as their screen versions make mayhem: the beast from twenty-thousand fathoms, Godzilla demolishing Tokyo, the massive creature in Cloverfield destroying New York, all of Earth warring with the colossal monsters in Pacific Rim.

'Now, for the first time, a definitive anthology that gathers a wide range of larger-than-life short fiction with creatures that run a gargantuan gamut: the stealthy gabbleduck of Neal Asher’s Polity universe; Gary McMahon’s huge sea-born terror; An Owomoyela’s incredibly tall alien invaders; Frank Wu’s city-razing, eighty-foot-high, fire-breathing lizard; Lavie Tidhar’s titanic ship-devouring monstrosity; a really big Midwest US smackdown related by Jeremiah Tolbert . . . and many more mega-monster stories to feed your need for killer kaiju!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.