{"_id":"636340376b09d19cb1a278a8","title":"The Monster Maker","author":"Ray Bradbury","code":"the-monster-maker","publish_year":1944,"publish_source":"Planet Stories","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Planet_Stories_v02n06_1944-Spring/page/n39/mode/2up","publish_edition":"Vol. 2, No. 6","words":5394,"image":"planet.jpg","image_alt":"A misty planet.","genres":["sci-fi","adventure"],"blurb":"There was nothing but stars, twisted wreckage, cold that pierced through his vac-suit, and silence. He wriggled out of the wreckage into that silence.","description":"Hathaway and Marnagan’s ship is hit by an asteroid and they crash land on a planet. Hathaway suspects that the asteroid was sent by the infamous space pirate Gunther.","unique_cover":"Drawing of two astronauts fighting various wacky aliens including a giant bug, octopus and pterodactly-like creature.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}