Summer 2009: Creature Double Feature
NY Times best-selling author knows all about scary monsters, and this summer he treats readers to two of the nastiest creatures ever to have existed.
Steve Alten’s first offering is MEG: Hell’s Aquarium (Variance Publishing), the fourth book in the best-selling MEG series. Meg is short for Carcharodon Megalodon, the 70-foot, 70,000 pound prehistoric cousin of the Great White shark. These monsters, which were bigger than a tractor trailer, ruled the seven seas for the last 35 million years and their disappearance remained a mystery…until Alten revealed their deep water habitat in the Mariana Trench. In MEG: Hell’s Aquarium, a Dubai Prince is building the world’s most unique aquarium-based park, and he means to stock it with the scariest sea monsters that ever evolved, recently discovered seven miles down, in an ancient sea located beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.
If you prefer more myth with your monster mayhem, you’ll love The LOCH (Tor Books), a page-turner about one man’s hunt for the “real” Loch Ness monster. Be forewarned, this is not the smiling plesiosaur of Disney’s lore, but a very real sea creature that has been trapped since the 1930s. And yes, she’s a bit agitated.
If you have a reluctant teen reader at home, you should know that both books are being used by thousands of high schools to encourage teens to read. MEG and The LOCH are also poised to be major summer blockbusters…just don’t think about getting near the ocean or lake anytime soon.
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