Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters

Godzilla #4

by Marc Cerasini

World of Fandom magazine praised Marc Cerasini as "an impressive voice," calling his previous novel, Godzilla At World's End, "an epic adventure that has the flavor of a Tom Clancy, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs story all rolled into one!" In Cerasini's next imaginative tale, the battered nations of the world prepare to fight back against Godzilla by constructing a pair of gigantic robotic weapons to be operated by teams of teenage geniuses. Unknown to the teams, however, the evil three-headed dragon King Ghidorah has returned. Rebuilt as a cyborg weapon, the creature can only by stopped if the robots now combine their forces and find an ally in the newly awakened Godzilla/tm/!  

Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 28, 1998

About the author

Best-selling author, Marc Cerasini has spent time on the New York Times and USA Today best-seller's lists. His writing spans from children's picture books and young adult novels to adult mystery and military nonfiction. Along the way, he's managed to ghostwrite for Tom Clancy.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much like The Three Stooges and the music of The Nice or Kraftwerk and the writing of Thomas Ligotti or Alan Moore, I believe people either tend to be big fans of Big G or they care not at all. People who liked the '60s films (or Pacific Rim) will probably like the Cerasini novels, of which this the last of four. It pops ahead to the year 2004, where Godzilla (appropriately enough) pops out of Krakatoa, Baragon attacks Montana, and Anguiris ravages Europe. Humanity counters with Moguera from the Soviets and Mechagodzilla from The U.S. and Japan. Then Mongolia gets involved and things become really unusual.... Put extra butter on the popcorn and Go, go, Godzilla.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bit too much angst as the various pilots for the robots deal with emotional issues and whatnot.
But, eventually they suck it up and go fight some monsters! These books do a nice job of reminding us that Godzilla and company are massive forces of nature that we puny mortals have little chance of stopping. That sense of awe mixed with some cool fight scenes save us from the author's constant delusion that we bought these books looking for strong characterization.
We want to read about giant monsters and robots fighting each other and busting lots of stuff up.

[Will Teich · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utter batshit insanity. I love it. Mongolia somehow re-purposes the corpse of an Alien monster into a gigantic combat cyborg and uses it to take over China.

[Will Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author does an outstanding job at describing the combat between giant monsters. I was very skeptical at first how this would turn out but he did a great job. The pacing is a little clunky with this and it takes a bit to get going but the pay off is fantastic. My main criticism would be the Baragon/Native American subplot. It doesn’t really go anywhere and does not add much to the story. I wish that was removed and we got a little bit more Godzilla. The story focuses more on other monsters much more than Godzilla .

[City Mist · Rating 2 out of 5]

Basically plotless, Godzilla vs the Robot Monsters only manages to avoid the lows of Godzilla at World's End by shedding the self importance that made that book so hard to read. That still does not make it any good though.

[Ricardo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read it in middle school and I liked it at the time. I'm gonna try to read it again.