"Shoggoths in Bloom" | |
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Author | Elizabeth Bear |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Science fiction/Horror (Cthulhu Mythos) novelette |
Published in | Asimov's Science Fiction |
Publication type | Magazine |
Publication date | March 2008 |
"Shoggoths in Bloom" is a science fiction novelette by Elizabeth Bear, originally published in the March 2008 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. It was the winner of the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[1]
It is about a black college professor who is doing research on an ancient and little known sea creature, the shoggoth (a creature gleaned from H. P. Lovecraft's work), off the coast of Maine. The story is set in 1938, against the backdrop of intensifying terror in Nazi Germany and a looming world war.