Unnatural Selection (Hellboy (Pocket Star Books)) [Kindle Edition]

Tim Lebbon (Author)

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"Lebbon is quite simply the most exciting new name in horror for years." -- SFX Magazine

Product Description

Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government,

is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.

He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission.

A dragon is seen perching on the statue of Christ the Redeemer

overlooking Rio de Janeiro . . .

A werewolf stalks the streets of Baltimore . . .

A griffin slaughters a herd of horses in Madrid . . .

Weird sightings of cryptozoological and mythological creatures abound around the globe. Sometimes the creatures simply appear and then vanish again, content merely to put in an appearance. Other times they make themselves known to entire cities, and leave their mark. Damaged buildings. Scars on the landscape. The occasional death.

Then suddenly, the death toll escalates. One by one Hellboy and his friends at the BPRD are dispatched to avert disaster. Hellboy encounters a dragon in Brazil. Abe Sapien tackles a giant alligator in Venice. Liz Sherman faces off against a phoenix in the Mediterranean.

But in dawning horror they realize it's all a distraction -- heralding nothing so much as an event of apocalyptic proportions . . .

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1956 KB
• Print Length: 320 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1416507833
• Publisher: Pocket Books (March 28, 2006)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000GCFY12
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,254 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I've been published for ten years now, and you can find out loads about me at my website www.timlebbon.net. I'm the author of over thirty books, including the Noreela series of fantasy books (Dusk, Dawn, Fallen and The Island), the NY Times Bestselling novelisation of the movie 30 Days of Night, and several books with Christopher Golden, including The Map of Moments and the forthcoming Secret Journeys of Jack London for Harper. I've also written several screenplays and some TV proposals. I've won several prestigious awards, and some of my work has been optioned for the big screen.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Talk about annoying, April 3, 2009

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Samantha J. Kerth "sam" (Richland, wa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unnatural Selection (Hellboy (Pocket Star Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love the Hellboy novels. And so far have read almost all of them. This one though is giving me a migraine. Just as you get interested in something bam the author is onto another topic. Talk about confusing. I pray I will get through this book by the end of the year. Whereas all the others took me a day to read. Is it this authors style to jump from one theme to another or is he just a crummy writer? And please don't let him write another Hellboy book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars hellboy, unnatural selection, June 5, 2006

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Michael Huang - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unnatural Selection (Hellboy (Pocket Star Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)

Overall, this was a enjoyable hellboy story. It was hard to get into at first due to the jumping back and forth between 1997 and 1970's. But the fight scenes between hellboy and the mythological creatures are very engaging. Its nice to see hellboy does gets his ass kicked multiple times despite his demon origin.

That said, this book is filled with too many weak villians and characters that just lacks any real personality to move the story along. In many ways, hellboy and BPRD seems to be just the bystanders that happened to get caught in the entire fiasco.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Unlikely Hero, November 2, 2006

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Darkendale "Raven" (VA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Unnatural Selection (Hellboy (Pocket Star Books)) (Mass Market Paperback)

I actually find the idea of a demon fighting evil a really good thing. And this book brings together an entire crypto-zoologist's dream of special creatures: phoenix, the black dog of legend, the giant rukh (I've always seen it spelled "roc", but I knew about the legend), Minotaur, manticore, kraken--and so on. The idea that Memory is a dimension is also an interesting concept. And of course, the "is he a villain or not" demonic who claims to only want out of this world. My only ding is an overuse of profanity. As I have often stated, in character dialogue, one may and sometimes must, expect it or the character doesn't ring true. But when the author uses it to describe a scene in the story, I begin to feel he or she is taking an easy way out rather than finding a proper adjective to fit the action. Quoth the Raven...