Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales

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Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
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Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales first edition cover.
Author Robert Hood and Robin Pen (editors)
Cover artist Bob Eggleton
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Genre Speculative fiction anthology
Publisher Agog! Press
Publication date
2005
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages352 pp (first edition)
ISBN 0-9580567-4-9

Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales is a 2005 speculative fiction anthology edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen.

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Background

Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales was first published in Australia in 2005 by Agog! Press in hardback format. [1] It won the 2006 Ditmar Award for best collected work. [2] Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales features 28 stories by 27 authors. [3] Two of the stories featured in the anthology, Richard Harland's "The Greater Death of Saito Saku" and Rosaleen Love's "Once Giants Roamed the Earth", were joint winners of the 2005 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. [4] "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" was also a short-list nominee for the 2006 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Kaaron Warren's "Fresh Young Widow". [2]

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