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Attack of the Colossal Creatures from Planet X is here to stomp, smash, and squelch its way through your imagination with 21 titanic tales of skyscraper-sized beasties, interstellar behemoths, and rampaging radioactive reptiles! The long-awaited follow-up to Invasion of the Saucer-Men from Mars!, this monstrous anthology is guaranteed to make you question every tremor, shadow, and ominous roar in the distance. Crushed cities? Check. Screaming civilians? Naturally. Dubious military strategies? Absolutely. Whether it's a space-born slug sliming its way across the Outback, or a misunderstood kaiju just looking for love in all the wrong tectonic plates, these stories are bursting at the seams with sheer destructive joy. From pulpy pastiche to atomic-age absurdity, this glorious celebration of giant monster mayhem pays tribute to the golden era of drive-in creature features and those wonderfully wobbly rubber suits of yesteryear. Lovingly sponsored by the good-for-nothing miscreants at Martian Brand Tobacco and Pesticides, Attack of the Colossal Creatures from Planet X features some of Australia's most talented (and clinically unsupervised) speculative fiction writers. So buckle up, board up the windows, and prepare to flee in slow-motion terror, because the monsters have landed, and they're taking no prisoners (unless you're snack-sized). With radioactive roars and seismic suspense, this anthology is the literary equivalent of a monster mash at a nuclear disco. You've survived the Saucer-Men. Now, try not to get squished by the Colossal Creatures.