Godzilla Vs. the Space Monster

Godzilla Digest Novel Series #4

by Scott Ciencin

On the outskirts of Fort Wayne, Indiana, twelve-year-old Troy Richmond wishes on a star for more excitement in his life. Be careful what you wish for, Troy! When a meteorite lands in his backyard, it infects Troy with information about King Ghidorah, the terrible three-headed space monster who is heading straight for Earth. Troy finds himself at the center of a worldwide monster battle when King Ghidorah attacks Monster Island and hurts Godzilla's monster friends Rodan, Mothra, Battra, and Anguirus. Now it's personal, and it's up to Godzilla and a kid from Indiana to join forces and save the world!  

Genres: Science Fiction

108 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 1998

About the author

Scott Ciencin was a New York Times best-selling novelist of 90+ books. He wrote adult and children's fiction and worked in a variety of mediums including comic books. He created programs for Scholastic Books, designed trading cards, consulted on video games, directed and produced audio programs & TV commercials, and wrote in the medical field about neurosurgery and neurology. He first worked in TV production as a writer, producer and director. He lived in Sarasota, Florida with his wife (and sometimes co-author) Denise.

(Also wrote under the pseudonyms Nick Baron and L.J. Oliver)

Reviews

[Evan Purcell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Against all odds, this middle-grade Godzilla book gave an actual STORY ARC to both its preteen protagonist and the titular monster himself. About half the runtime is spent on epic monster fights (none of which were particularly thrilling because you KNOW that Toho wouldn't have given Random House the freedom to actually kill any of its mainline monsters), but the action beats are clean and exciting, and there are enough moments of trippy, psychic-kid weirdness to give this story a real Showa Era flair without taking things too far into All Monsters Attack-style kiddishness. It's not a perfect piece of fiction, but it accomplishes exactly what it wants to do in just over 100 pages. Plus, Godzilla and Anguirus have a kaiju bromance for the ages.

[David Macpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was more fun than it had a right to be. Godzilla and the monster island gang against King Gidorah. The action sequences were really well done. The kid friendly stuff? Not so much, but it was to the point and cool

[Donavon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best of the Scott Ciencin Godzilla stories.

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Tor Domay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Being the final entry in Ciencin's run of Godzilla books, it's a delicious treat that he delivered a more or less nonstop monster romp.

[Mallory Kellogg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was a fun trip down memory lane to read a book I used to live for. I'm such a Godzilla geek. :) The story was overly simple, of course, since it's for middle-schoolers and the author loved the word "suddenly". It was all very SUDDENLY shocking. lol

[Dantae Olson · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book was awesome i loved every minute of it. its about a monster named king ghidora that wants to destroy the world.but a monster named godzilla will team up with other monsters to bring him down.i recommend this book for all science fiction fans.

[Barb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gotta love Godzilla!!