Tall Stories: Omnibus 5 B 英文原版

　　”Tall Stories” is another omnibus containing two of Tom Holt’s
beloved comic fantasies. In “Expecting Someone Taller, “all he did
was run over a badger–sad, but hardly catastrophic. But it wasn’t
Malcolm fisher’s day, for the badger turned out to be none other
than Ingolf, last of the Giants. With his dying breath, Ingolf
reluctantly handed to Malcolm two Gifts of Power and made him ruler
of the world. But can Malcolm cope with the responsibility? In “Ye
Gods ,” being a hero bothers Jason Derry. It’s easy to get
maladjusted when your mom’s a suburban housewife and your dad’s the
Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying monsters and
retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then
having to tidy your room before you can watch “Star Trek.” But it’s
not the relentless tedium of imperishable glory that finally brings
Jason to the end of his rope; it’s something so funny that it’s got
to be taken seriously. Deadly seriously.

　　Tom Holt is the author of such comic fantasy classics as:
Expecting Someone Taller, Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?, Flying Dutch,
Ye Gods!, Overtime, Here Comes the Sun, Grailblazers, Faust Among
Equals, Odds and Gods, Djinn Rummy, My Hero, Paint Your Dragon and
Open Sesame

　　Praise for Tom Holt: ‘Uniquely twisted … cracking gags’ Rob
Grant, THE GUARDIAN, ‘Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing …
gratifyingly clever and very amusing’ MAIL ON SUNDAY, ‘Frothy, fast
and funny’ SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY, ‘Dazzling’ TIME OUT, ‘Wildly
imaginative’ NEW SCIENTIST