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LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS

Lives of the Monster Dogs, published in 1997, by author Kirsten Bakis, won the Bram Stoker award for best first novel and has been attracting rabid SciFi fans ever since. Who would’ve thought that this perfect blend of dogs and science fiction would make for such a great book? But it’s not just the walking, talking, 10-fingered canines who populate the story that account for the book’s success, the perfect writing and an accessible main character combine to make the story so enjoyable to read. This tale perfectly weaves its way from a remote Eastern European village where a Doctor-Frankenstein-like mad man is creating dogs with his unique and freaky steampunk bionic technology, and continues to a remote Canadian village where the European doctor’s descendants perfect the monster dogs with plans to exploit them as super soldiers. Of coarse the dogs overthrow their masters and claim their considerable wealth. The dogs, whose natural sensibility, it turns out, is classy and sophisticated, head for New York City aboard private jets where they check into fine hotels. The entire world falls in love with them … and from there the story only gets weirder and better until it reaches its climax and conclusion. Sadly the author, Kirsten Bakis, has not published another book since she penned Lives of the Monster Dogs in the 1990s, but the good news is there are rumors she’ll be publishing something in the near future.

Lives of the Monster Dogs was first published in 1997, and reissued in 2017 with an introduction by Jeff Vandermeer, the author of The Northern Reach Trilogy

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Lives of the Monster Dogs in the NY Times Archive

Deep Review of Lives of the Monster Dogs in Atlantic Magazine

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Review of Lives of the Monster Dogs on TOR.COM

Concise Review of Lives of the Monster Dogs on Publisher's Weekly

Deep review of Lives of the Monster Dogs on Spectrum Culture

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Lives of the Monster Dogs was published in 1997 when it won the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel. It's been translated into several foreign languages and optioned for film but not produced. The author, Kirsten Bakis, has been teaching at Yale and other prestigious writing programs over the past two decades. Rumor has it, she's close to publishing another book soon.

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