Spider Legs
SpiderLegs tells us for thousands of years, mankind has simultaneously trusted in the sea's provibial generosity, and used it as a dumping ground, trusting that in its vastness his garbage will be swallowed up and forgotten.  But that was never really true, and now, in an age when the overcrowded Earth swarms with hungry inhabitants whose waste chokes with even the sea, whose greedy demands overtax its seemingly endless bounty, strange things are born in the ocean's deeps-strange things that the ocean throws back upon the land.
Fiction, Marine pollution, Monsters, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, science fiction, general
Piers Anthony, Clifford A. Pickover
Piers Anthony was born in Oxford, England.  When he was four years old, his family immigrated to the United States.  He graduated from Goddard College in Vermont in 1956, the year he met and married his wife, Carol Marble.  After working at odd jobs, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 for steady income and medical insurance.  In 1958, he became a U.S. citizen.  He became an editor and cartoonist for the Battalion newspaper.  He left the army in 1959 and briefly taught public school before becoming a full-time writer.  Anthony currently lives with his wife on a tree farm which he owns in Florida. || Clifford Alan Pickover attended Franklin and Marshall College for his undergraduate degree.  In 1982 he received his Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, where he conducted research on X-ray scattering and protein structure.  In 1982 he joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a member of the speech synthesis group.  For much of his career, he has published technical articles on scientific visualization, computer art, and recreational mathematics.  Pickover is still employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is the editor of the IBM Journal of Research and Development.  He is also an associate editor for the scientific journal Computers and Graphics.  For many years he wrote the Brain-Boggler column for Discover magazine, and he currently writes the Brain-Strain column for Odyssey magazine.  He has written several science fiction novels as well, including his Neoreality series.