When Godzilla rises from the Pacific ocean to wreak havoc on the modern world, young Japanese-American reporter Brian Shimura becomes obsessed with discovering the truth behind the Godzilla legend.

Kip Daniels is grabbed by two mysterious men after he breaks all previous records on a new video game. The military created the game to recruit new talent for training on a high-tech flying weapon to be used against Godzilla and other giant monsters. Kip and five other teens agree to join a secret organization, but do they stand a chance against the mighty Godzilla?

In the year 2001, a team of young science students makes an eerie discovery: Miles below the surface of the South Pole, the Ancient Ones, a race of crystalline beings, have awakened after a million years, horrified to find "their" world infected by a plague of humans. Now young scientists and Godzilla are humanity's last line of defense against an army of cybernetic monsters intent on destroying the human race.

The battered nations of the world prepare to fight back against Godzilla by constructing a pair of gigantic robotic weapons to be operated by teams of teenage geniuses. Unknown to the teams, however, the evil three-headed dragon King Ghidorah has returned. Rebuilt as a cyborg weapon, the creature can only by stopped if the robots now combine their forces and find an ally in the newly awakened Godzilla.

A land mass the size of Texas rises from the depths of the ocean, forming a new continent on the Earth. As the world powers rush to claim this undiscovered country, they find vast ruins from a strange undersea civilization. The nations of the world greedily fight over the new continent and its resources. They discover that the monsters Manda, Varan, and Battra have made this continent their home. A totally new monster emerges and defeats all of man’s weapons, which leaves Godzilla as the only one who can stop it.

Godzilla is a threat to the entire planet and only G-Force has the resources to track, study, and contain the King of the Monsters. See Godzilla battle the All-Terraintula, big game hunters from another world, a mad scientist with a time machine, and the Spanish Armada. It's horror on the high seas and terror on the Titanic when Godzilla takes to time travel!

Noriko Yoshiwara`s world changed that fateful day her father discovered the big rock. Little did she know that the discovery became Godzilla`s wake-up call and set the pace for her life`s work -- studying the King of the Monsters. Follow her lead and the scientist team called G-Force through Godzilla`s adventures as he battles Hero Zero, Charles Barkley, and more!

Movie stills from the TriStar Pictures movie relate the story of the most famous movie monster in the world. Godzilla has chosen the Big Apple as home for his newly hatched Baby Godzillas! Among those hot on his trail are Nick, a scientist; Audrey, his ex-girlfriend and novice reporter; and Animal, a daredevil cameraman.

In this gentler Godzilla monster tale, Godzilla and his monster friends find a strange-looking egg on Monster Island. Knowing instinctively that the egg is important, Godzilla protects it from Gigan and MechaGodzilla's vicious attacks. The egg turns out to be a cocoon, and when it opens, it releases beautiful Mothra, the newest monster on Monster Island!

When Los Angeles is attacked from above by the Smog Monster Hedorah and from below by the underground creature Gigan, the mayor calls for reinforcements. But there's only one force that can save the City of Angels now, Godzilla. From Beverly Hills to the Hollywood Hills, here's one monster showdown sure to make the earth quake

Inspired by the 1954 movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters, this novel recounts Godzilla's first appearance and treats readers to the story of his origins. Legends say twentieth century nuclear testing transformed the lone surviving Godzillasaurus dinosaur into a towering monster who can deliver an atomic blast with his breath and topple whole buildings with his tail--which is just what he does when he rises from the Pacific and pays his first visit to Tokyo, Japan.

A young Japanese boy is having trouble fitting in to his new American home. So when Godzilla arrives on America's shores, the boy decides to run away to follow him. He soon finds himself at the center of the biggest monster battle America has ever seen!

Lost in America, Godzilla can't seem to find his way back to the Pacific Ocean. He meets up with a group of giant monsters created by a scientific mishap and decides to wage war on a fearful military. When the monsters meet two courageous children who have convinced the authorities that the monsters are just looking for a way home, the group is allowed to continue their journey to Monster Island.

On the outskirts of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 12-year-old Troy Richmond wishes on a star for more excitement in his life. When a meteorite lands in his backyard, Troy learns of an impending invasion of Earth by King Ghidorah, a terrible, three-headed monster. Soon Troy finds himself at the center of a worldwide monster battle when King Ghidorah attacks Monster Island, home of Godzilla!

Beginning with his birth in the heart of a nuclear explosion in the 1954 film "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", this book contains everything readers could ever want to know about Tokyo's favorite monster: movie summaries, entertaining essays that cover all aspects of the last 40 years of Godzilla, and a wealth of color photos and illustrations.

Bill Tsutsui blends impeccable scholarship with witty writing and an eye for fascinating detail as he follows the romping, stomping path of Godzilla across global popular culture: from Japanese film making in the 1950s, to rap lyrics in the present day; from issues of nuclear disarmament to the character of science fiction fandom; from wind-up toys to advertisements for Nike, Taco Bell, and Dr. Pepper. Inspired by his life-long affection -- passion? mania? -- for the monster