(W) Shigeru Kayama, Jeffrey Angles. Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film* produced by Toho Studios and directed by Ishiro Honda* creating a global sensation and launching one of the world's most successful movie and media franchises. 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. Kayama's two Godzilla novellas* both classics of Japanese young-adult science fiction* have never been available in English. This book finally provides English-speaking fans and critics the original texts with these first-ever English-language translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again.