All Creatures Weird and Dangerous
Timm Otterson, DVM
I've said that fiction allows for interesting speculation in the absence of hard data on cryptids. No book has made speculation more fun than Dr. Otterson's. Otterson mixes his experiences as a vet into tales of treating a trapped plesiosaur, a sasquatch that's been shot, an injured Chupacabra, a colony of mammalian merpeople (the most fascinating topic of speculation), and others. He fudges some "historical" facts on cryptids, but most of it is his imagination of how, to the best of his knowledge, he would treat such little-known creatures. There's one creature with magic, but everything else is zoologically-based and told so well he ALMOST makes you think this really happened. It's funny throughout, too. It's just wonderful.
1 comment:
Have you read anything by Seanan McGuire? She does a lot with Cryptids.
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