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The official novelization of the much-anticipated brand-new Godzilla movie--a rebirth for the major international franchise! Gareth Edwards' Godzilla will be released on May 16, 2014!

An epic rebirth of Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence

WB SHIELD: TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s13)© Legendary.© Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.GODZILLA is a trademark of Toho Co., Ltd. The GODZILLA character and design are trademarks of and copyrighted by Toho Co., Ltd. Used with permission. All Rights Reserved.

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304 pages
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English
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Titan Books
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May 20, 2014
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4.18 x 0.79 x 6.88 inches
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1783290943
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978-1783290949
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"A great companion to what I consider an exceptional film." - Pop Cults

"An exciting read that makes the film's characters even more important than in the film." - BGG Magazine

“an ideal pairing of passion and commerce, producing a novelization a slice above” - Barnes & Noble SFF blog

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Greg Cox is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Knight Risesnovelization. He has also written successful novelizations and tie-ins for Star Trek, Countdown, Infinite Crisis and many more. Cox is a consulting editor for Tor Books and was nominated in 2008 for the Best Speculative Adapted Scribe Award for 52: The Novel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books (May 20, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783290943
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783290949
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.18 x 0.79 x 6.88 inches

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Greg Cox (born 1959) is an American writer of science fiction, including works that are media tie-ins. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

He has written numerous Star Trek novels, including The Eugenics Wars (Volume One and Two), The Q Continuum, Assignment: Eternity, and The Black Shore. His short fiction can be found in such anthologies as Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, Star Trek: The Amazing Stories and Star Trek: Enterprise logs. His first "Khan" novel, The Eugenics Wars: Volume One, was voted best sci-fi book of the year by the readers of Dreamwatch magazine. Cox can be found in a bonus feature on the "Director's Edition" DVD of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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Peter Haight

Nice tie in!

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2014

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It's not often that I write reviews on physical media such as books of this nature, but I haven't seen any reviews on here for the book yet (as it was just released today.) I thought i'd do the community a favor and post one. When I saw the Amazon listing go up for this a few months back I pre-ordered it, and I just got this book this morning on it's release date (Yay, Amazon Prime!) I spent most of the day reading it and just finished it around dinner time, a short while ago. It's about 300 pages, but it's an easy read (especially if you've seen the film.)

I'll first start out by saying that I greatly love movie novels! They can make an awesome movie better by expanding on plot elements and including altered or deleted scenes, as the novels are based on earlier drafts of screenplays. Of those I have read, Alan Dean Foster has particularly written some phenomenal ones! Greg Cox is a new author to me, but I checked online and he's written several tie ins, including Star Trek and Underworld.

This book was pretty standard fare for a movie tie in. Well written, providing another dimension of depth to the elements of the story by providing background information on characters, such as Ford's favorite ice cream flavor and Joe's history with his wife. Some of the dialogue was different from what I remember seeing on-screen, but I don't recall anything majorly different. Surprisingly, the book did a great job on the fight scenes in my opinion, explaining details of the path of destruction left by, *SPOILER ALERT* the two MUTOs and Godzilla with consistency and clarity. At some points the book did manage to get a little tedious, as the plot jumps around a bit in locations and situations. That being said, the pacing of the book wasn't rushed or too drawn out. It seemed just right. The buildup to the climax mirrored that of the film but went into more detail in doing so, I enjoyed that.

I liked the addition of the added information on characters, it wasn't unnecessary like you would think-- until we get a BluRay/DVD release this will have to tide us over, as it has plenty of good details and the author, Greg Cox, really hit it out of the park with a solid, easy reading movie novel filled with plenty of detail. The novel did, in my opinion, a nice job capturing the emotion of the characters in the film. Serizawa is written exactly as his on-screen counterpart would compose himself and Joe Ford, especially. Bryan Cranston's role in the film was incredible, go watch the movie!

All in all I enjoyed reading this novel. Fan of the movie? You'd probably like this, then. I'd bet there's details you missed. If you haven't seen the film yet I would really recommend it. I won't spoil anything, but, it is worth the price of admission for the last half hour of the film alone (which I might add was well-written in the novel.)

For $7, I'd be hard pressed to find a better movie novel based on a recent film.

9/10

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"His tail whipped back and forth in anger. The male had done this to him. The male would suffer."

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2014

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This novel starts of in 1954, but quickly skips ahead to 1999, and there's been a mining accident in the Philippines and Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and his aide Dr. Vivienne Graham are sent to investigate. And when they investigate they find that the accident has uncovered something.

Meanwhile Ford Brodie wakes up to find his mother Sandra, and his father, Joe, upset because there is a problem at the Janjira Nuclear Power Plant, and that the big day that Ford had planned, because it is his dad's birthday, will have to be put off. And for those who have seen the movie, we know that Ford's special celebration of his father's birthday will now be put off forever.

This is because there will be a nuclear power plant meltdown, which is especially visual in the movie, and which will cause his mother's death. A death that will cause his father to have a breakdown, and from then on, nothing will ever be the same for Ford.

This novelization will then jump to the present day (2014), and Ford is now an adult and he's back on leave from the service to visit his own new family, which consists of his wife Elle and his young son Sam As he's settling down to enjoy his break from diffusing roadside bombs he gets a call from Japan that his father has been arrested. Again.

Leaving his young family to go help his father, and after some tension-filled discussion between the two, Joe and Ford, as in the movie, will make their way back to Janjira and their old home. Joe to get his old records, and Ford to accompany him, and in this scene the novel expands upon what we see in the movie, as Ford has to relive that last day of his life in their old home as he sifts through the reminders of a his past.

And as we know it from the movie, the Brodies really step into it big time as they are caught and hauled unceremoniously back to ground zero. It is here that we meet Dr. Serizawa again, and after fifteen years he still has his faithful assistant Dr. Graham with him, and their both seriously deep into what has destroyed the nuclear plant.

And what is there that once destroyed the plant will now wake up.

Like the movie, this novelization will tell its tale from multiple viewpoints, something that I like, but it will be mostly the story of Serizawa as he documents one side, and Ford's, as he is caught in various circumstances as he tries to fight his way back to his family, and to stay true to his duty and fight alongside those others in the service and help destroy the MUTA (Massive Unknown Terrestrial Organism).

First of all, this novel has a lot of the minor details from the movie, and it expands on them. For instance, there is the little scene where the Japanese goth teen is bailed out of jail. Not only is it included, but it is referenced several times in the novel, often when Ford is thinking about his family, or his father. There is the bittersweet homecoming scene in Janjira where Ford is looking at his father's Happy Birthday pennant, and the remnants of his terrarium, in the movie, but this scene is expanded upon and Ford's emotions are better delineated in the book.

Of course, some things are better in the movie than the book. The plant's destruction and Elle's death, the creatures themselves, and the final battle, because, nothing shows big explosive action like video, but that's to be expected. Emotions are better on the page, while action is better on the screen.

There're also some very good comparisons here. Ford finds a cocoon that has hatched something in his terrarium just as the MUTA had hatched in Janjira; the separation of the child Akio from his family and Ford's separation from his family; the saving of Akio as compared to the death of the little girl and her family, something that wasn't in the final cut of the movie I think. And yes, while this novelization is Commercial Writing 101, but when it's done well, it cool to experience.

Now, of course, this novel ain't perfect, but what is. It's true that Ford has way too many adventures where he has way too many last minute escapes. I mean, at times I thought that I was watching "Die Hard", the "Godzilla" version. Also, much has been made by several reviewers about Cox' flubbing the geography of San Francisco, but, since I've never been there, these mistakes not only didn't bother me, but I didn't care. And true, the science is pretty damn dodgy, but, we are talking about a giant monster movie, and if you're worrying about the science behind the monsters being flawed, then you're not only reading the wrong novel, but you've probably went to see the wrong movie.

This version of the Godzilla mythos was so much better than the last American turd fest, and Cox's novelization is a cool souvenir of the movie, with a great picture of the King of Dinosaurs on the cover.

I have a real fondness for novelizations, and for this site I have reviewed these other novelizations:

"Barb Wire": Novelisation by Neal Barrett, Jr.
The Condemned (WWE) by Rob Hedden.
The Frighteners: A Novel by Michael Jahn.
Mutant Chronicles by Matt Forbeck.
Ju-on Volume 1 by Kei Ohishi.
Ju-On 2 by Takashi Shimizu and Meimu.
O'Shaughnessy's Boy by Lebbeus Mitchell.
Plasmid by Robert Knight (Christopher Evens).
Reptilicus by Dean Owen.
Whodunnit by Alan Radnor.
Rabid by Richard Lewis.

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the movie for once is probably better

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014

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First of all there were numerous editing mistakes, which makes me wonder since I was notified by Amazon that the release date had been pushed back, they didn't explain why, I would have thought it would be to correct some of the glaring mistakes. Which made it difficult at times. As to the plot....it was well structured, although as a former member of the Air Force, it was somewhat difficult to believe that the main character kept getting into the center of the action, from Japan to Hawaii to Nevada to California through No less than for separate engagements stretching believability but then it is a story involving Godzilla. Having said that... I grew up watching every Godzilla movie made from the original 1954 up through the current permutations and I was somewhat disappointed as Godzilla took a back seat in the story, even the fight between Godzilla and the insectile MUTO's was minuscule. You only glimpse him in the very beginning then a little in Hawaii then nothing until the end.....Still Godzilla was portrayed more as the protector of the earth against destructive invading monsters. Not campy and 10X better than the earlier American version. Of course you can't really fault the author as it was only a novelization of the movie. I wanted, expected more, I read the novelization of Pacific Rim, it was better more monsters more battles etc. The story could have been so much more, for once it's probably better to see the movie....unlike an Steven King movie version of any book, those books were better....

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Alaran

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2017

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This is a fairly reasonable novelisation but despite the content it isn’t a particularly exciting read and fails somewhat to grasp the atmosphere or tension of the film. It is quite loyal to the original material but in being so it sometimes slips into being just too much of list of the events seen onscreen. It feels as if it requires a bit more fleshing out. There also feels like there is a lack of Godzilla himself, an impression that the film didn’t give.

The author does make some effort to invigorate the story with a bit more humanity, although most it all falls a bit flat, especially with a lot of the military or scientific figures. The use of the character of Jenny in Hawaii works quite well though.

Most of the human aspect inevitably comes through Ford. His father’s role is somehow diminished by this though, resulting in him coming across as less of a sympathetic figure. I’m not sure if this is due to the absence of Bryan Cranston’s convincing performance or because the novel primarily views Joe through the eyes of Ford, who for the most part is a dissatisfied son disappointed with his father’s behaviour until after his death.
Ford’s wife and son do receive more coverage than they did in the film by having more from their point of view. This is probably where the novelisation is at its most successful as it puts Ford’s family more at the heart of the story than perhaps the film did. This gives the story a more human perspective. The down side being that as a result of this Godzilla feels a slight bit incidental at times. The novelisation reads a bit more like a disaster film than a monster movie.

As difficult as it may seem the novelisation might have benefitted from providing a bit more of a psychological insight into Godzilla. Oddly, the film did manage to do this slightly in some way that was better than the novelisation.

I was hoping the creatures generally referred to as MUTOs might be provided with some type of species name, or some such thing, in the novelisation. But, sadly, we learn nothing more about them.

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Mr. R. S. Hutton Mckee

Up from the depps

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2020

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A giant of a tale close to the movie but in more detail a fine read and a good read as well. One for all fans of The Big Green Giant.

Bryan

A great read whether you've seen the movie or not

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2015

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I read this movie novelisation before seeing the movie on DVD and the book was so entertaining that I immediately went on to the Amazon website and ordered the DVD. The book is well written and the description Greg Cox gives in respect of the events makes the reader easily visualise what is going on! Certainly recommend the book whether you have seen the movie or not.

Matthew

Great read for any fan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2021

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I really enjoyed this book. It really brings the film to life and makes you feel for the characters. As someone who isn't a good reader I found that I couldn't put this one down

Brian

Godzilla

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2015

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I brought this book on a whim and while it's not great literature it is an enjoyable read. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say how they compare. But an enjoyable read.

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