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Godzilla: The Novelization [Hardcover]

Stephen Molstad (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)


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June 1998
Is it Thunder-or Footsteps?

A devastating, blinding flash lights up the sky above a Polynesian atoll. The island is no more. All that is left is a towering mushroom cloud that slowly drifts away.

The Pacific Ocean boils and churns though there is no storm in sight. A fish-processing ship goes down, leaving only a single survivor: a catatonic sailor, too terrified to speak.

Gigantic footprints plow an ominous path through the Panamanian rain forest, crossing the isthmus from west to east and disappearing into the Atlantic Ocean.

Off the North Carolina coast, a ship suddenly capsizes and is dragged under the sea.

An inexorable wave of destruction, incessant and mysterious, is heading north, toward a tiny, densely populated island called Manhattan!

In the motion picture event of the decade, the blockbuster filmmaker Dean Devlin adn Roland Emmerich bring the biggest monster of all time to the screen: Godzilla! As the towering terror methodically dismantles Manhattan, nuclear scientist Nick Tatopolous is called in to do what the combined forces of the U.S. Army and Air Force can't

Stop him!

Nick's only hopeand New York's last chanceis to join forces with Phillipe Roache, an enigmatic insurance investigator leading a team of odd characters who are assessing the damages even as they occur. Neither team leader trusts the other, but they must bury their differences fast, before the marauding monster buries Manhattan under its own rubble. For like a genie from the bottle, Godzilla came to life with three wishes and all three are coming true: Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!

Capturing all the terror and grandeur of the spectacular film from the creators of the smash hit Independence Day, this exciting novelization straight from the screenplay brings to life the most awesome movie monster ever. Godzilla is here in all his gruesome glory. He's about to reach out and touch someone.

Pray it isn't you.



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About the Author

This is Stephen Molstad's third book for Centropolis Entertainment. Before writing the novelization of the hit movie Independence Day, he was a collaborator on the Hugo-nominated novelization of StarGate. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, he spent several years traveling, teaching, and playing pickup basketball. He lives with his wife, Elizabeth, in Los Angeles.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 314 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Prism (June 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061050563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061050565
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,792,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Godzilla is one of the best books i ever,ever read!, October 25, 1998
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This review is from: Godzilla: The Novelization (Hardcover)
It's really interesting book.It's much better than a movie,although the movie is not bad, either.This book is going to be interesting to everybody,who loves to read science fiction.I like this book very much.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, thrilling... An EXCELLENT novelization!, June 23, 1998
This review is from: Godzilla: The Novelization (Hardcover)
Now from the most anticipated movie of the year is the Godzilla Novelization! I saw the movie a couple of days ago, and then I read the book. The book is WAY better than the movie, although I must say Matthew Broderick did fantastic and the special effects were da bomb. The reasons the book is better is that it gives more in-depth description of the characters nad you can imagine yourself being there without a movie showing you where you are. It gives you a chance to play the movie in your mind.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves sci-fi novels or movies and anyone who is bored to the max. And I would also like to point out that Stephen Molstad did a fantastic job with the novelization job directly from the screenplay. He also did the books for ID4 and the sequel/prequel to ID4, The Silent Zone, which is also a very good book. I would also point out that the final movie art is on the cover of the books now.

I also recommend reading the making of Godzilla and kids could read this book because there is a very little amount of bad words, but the words are big (as in they couldn't understand them). There is a Scholastic novelization to the movie, too for kids that is much shorter than this book.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Godzilla, June 8, 2006
This review is from: Godzilla (Paperback)
ISBN 0590572121 - Because Amazon has this weird tendency to lump things together, I am reviewing the Godzilla version from Scholastic, for kids, ISBN 0590572121. I mention that because my review, followed by some other edition reviews, it might confuse a few people!

This book, labeled for ages 5-8 on the back cover, is really not suited to 5 year olds. There's too much text, and too many large words. If, however, the 5 year old in question was seen the movie (the 1998 remake), then maybe. Otherwise, despite it's size, it seems more appropriate for the 9 and up group.

As a result of atomic bomb tests by the French government, all life on the islands of French Polynesia has been destroyed - except one egg. This egg grew, and changed, transformed by radiation. When it hatched, a new creature was born.

Scientific research into the effects of radiation is Dr. Nick Tatopoulos' great love, and he has a theory. Radiation can cause some animals to grow to enormous proportions. Whisked away from his studies, Nick and the military begin to hunt down the creature from the islands. They have to stop it, before it's too late.

Filled with pictures from the movie, young fans may find it enjoyable. For older readers, it's just another telling of Jurassic Park, right down to the "something survived" ending. Still, in the end, if it will get a kid to read a book, it can't possibly be all that bad.

- AnnaLovesBooks
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