Both novellas were published by Shimamura Shuppan, Ltd. in a single volume in 1955 as Gojira and Gojira no gyakushū. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Glossary of names, places, and ideas. Nature's victory song -- A strange bright light from the ocean floor ; The Kaiju of Ō̄̄do Island ; The eerie island of Ōdo ; Godzilla appears ; The mysterious trilobite ; The underground laboratory ; We mustn't kill ; The Tokyo Godzilla Society ; Godzilla attacks the metropolitan center ; The oxygen destroyer ; Prayer for peace -- Godzilla Raids Again: Godzilla in Osaka. Flight over the ocean ; Two Kaiju ; Professor Yamane ; Godzilla approaches ; Crowds of evacuees ; The escaped prisoners ; Godzilla makes landfall ; Anguirus ; The Hokkaido branch ; The far north ; Celebrating the big catch ; Godzilla appears in the northern seas ; Kobayashi's plane meets its end ; Nature's victory song -- Afterword: translating an icon / Jeffrey Angles -- Glossary of names, places, and ideas.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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