Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor
for humanity's shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama the science
fiction writer who drafted the 1954 original film and its first sequel and in 1955 published
these novellas. This book finally provides the first-ever English-language translations of
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again revealing valuable insights into Kayama's vision for the
Godzilla story--
