Expecting Beowulf. This item is unavailable.Expecting Beowulf

Two of Holt's funniest books, Expecting Someone Taller and Who's Afraid of Beowulf? in a single trade paperback volume. It was released at Boskone 39 in conjunction with Tom Holt's planned appearance there as Featured Filker. Unfortunately, Tom was unable to attend the convention.

Novelist, Englishman and admittedly incompetent amateur blacksmith Tom Holt offers readers two previously published comic fantasies under one cover in Expecting Beowulf (with a bonus of a very funny bio: Holt identifies himself, for instance, as a "short, fat, middle-aged bearded guy who sounds like someone doing a rather bad Hugh Grant impression"). A nighttime collision with the last of the Frost-Giants (who's disguised as a badger) shifts an ancient balance of power, and mild, dopey Malcolm Fisher is made ruler of the world in Expecting Someone Taller; in Who's Afraid of Beowulf (get it?) an archeologist rouses a dozen Vikings from a 12,000-year-old sleep and then has to be their treasurer, chauffeur and pseudo-mom as she aids them in their quest to save the world.
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