Godzilla (Marc Cerasini series)

Godzilla is a novel series written by author Marc Cerasini based on the film characters. Each novel has its own unique plot and storyline, with Toho's monsters featured as the stars.

Godzilla Returns

"Godzilla Returns" is the first novel, with Godzilla reappearing for the first time since 1954, rampaging and destroying the city of Tokyo. The book is clearly set to follow the U.S. dubbed "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", as Steve Martin - referred to as "Stephen Martin" - is said to have been present during the original attack. The finale of the novel is similar to the 1984 movie The Return of Godzilla, as Godzilla is drawn away from the city using a lure identical to the one used in that film. However, the lure is used to draw Godzilla to the deepest part of the ocean, rather than a volcano.

Godzilla 2000

In the second novel, "Godzilla 2000" (not to be confused with the movie of the same name), the United States government forms a new organization, G-Force, dedicated to stopping the attacks of giant monsters, especially Godzilla. Meanwhile, a meteor shower threatens mankind with extinction. The initial wave delivers a parasitic alien organism to Earth, which bonds with a praying mantis to form a swarm of gigantic creatures dubbed Kamacuras. Soon after, another monster, Varan, surfaces in Mexico. A gigantic pterodactyl, actually the monster Rodan, emerges from the North Pole and builds a nest on Mount Rushmore. And the King of the Monsters himself surfaces off the coast of California, ultimately crossing the United States and arriving in New York City on January 1, 2000. There, it is finally revealed that he has been led there by Mothra, the Protector of the Earth, to destroy the dreaded King Ghidorah, the three-headed space monster who emerged from one of the asteroids approaching Earth. Humankind must survive the epic battle of the monsters.

Godzilla at World's End

In the third novel, "Godzilla At World's End", a new threat emerges from within the Earth itself a year after Godzilla's battle with King Ghidorah. An ancient civilization, long dead and buried beneath Antarctica, springs to life with the arrival of a teenage girl from the surface world, who becomes corrupted by the power she finds there and seeks to destroy mankind, unleashing five new monsters: Gigan, Megalon, Manda, Battra and Hedorah. Her ultimate weapons are the Babel Wave that cuts off all communications and the plant monster Biollante. Luckily, with the help of a group of teenage scientists, Mothra, a young Rodan (the one that hatched from the egg on Mount Rushmore), and the newly awakened Anguirus, who emerges from the Caspian Sea to slay Gigan, Godzilla saves the world once more, but becomes trapped beneath the surface of the Earth.

Godzilla vs. The Robot Monsters

Godzilla emerges from a volcano in the year 2004. Meanwhile, America, Russia and Mongolia have each been hard at work on their own anti-monster projects: Mechagodzilla, MOGUERA and Mecha-King Ghidorah, respectively. Mechagodzilla is pitted against Baragon, who emerges from hibernation to feed, while MOGUERA defeats and captures Anguirus. Mecha-King Ghidorah, on the other hand, is in the hands of a corrupt Kulgan Khan, the new ruler of Mongolia, who intends to use the rebuilt space monster as a weapon of conquest. In the climax of the novel, Godzilla escapes from the bottom of the Earth and returns to Japan to do battle with his old foe, unwittingly teaming up with Mechagodzilla and MOGUERA in the process. However, the only survivor of the fight is Godzilla himself.

In a subplot, the radioactive mutant Fire Rodan, the individual introduced in Godzilla 2000, returns to America, laying a new egg on a mountaintop in West Virginia.

Lost Project

The final book, Godzilla and The Lost Continent, was set for a 1999 release, but was never published due to the loss of Random House's license. The summary given in the previous book reveals that a new continent would rise from the Pacific, with several nations laying claim to it, but that it would also harbor great danger: Varan, Manda and Battra now call this continent home, as well as a totally new yet unnamed kaiju and a previously unknown civilization. Godzilla resurfaces to do battle with this threat.

eries

*"Godzilla Returns"
*"Godzilla 2000"
*"Godzilla At World's End"
*"Godzilla vs. The Robot Monsters"
*"Godzilla and The Lost Continent" (Unpublished)