If you think you’ve already read every good book on Japanese Giant Monsters think again. Still think you already know it all about Japanese giant monster films? Did you know that King Seesar originally had antlers and was named King Barugan? Or that Tadao Takashima refused to fly to Guam for on location filming for Son of Godzilla? Or that Katsumi Nimiamoto, who played Titanosaurus in Terror of Mechagodzilla, was also the acrobatic hero of Ultraman Leo on TV? Don’t know who Tadao Takashima or Katsumi Nimiamoto are, don’t worry this book will tell you that too. Goliath), but for the first time in America offers reviews, trivia and detailed production information on all of Daiei’s classic Gamera films, Toei’s Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds, and even the Shaw Brother’s Mighty Peking Man to name a few. Not only does it cover Toho’s dai kaiju eiga (even the rarely seen Daigoro vs. "What’s this?" you ask, "Another crudely fan produced book of reviews and boring synopses of Toho’s Godzilla films?" Not quite, if you’re a seasoned Godzilla fan like the author eager for new information on old classics, this is in fact the book for you.
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Īfter graduation, Liu worked as a software engineer for Microsoft, and then joined a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard College, he studied English Literature and Computer Science, receiving his A. Liu graduated from Waterford High School in 1994, where he ran cross-country and track. They lived in California and Stonington, Connecticut before settling in Waterford, Connecticut. The family immigrated to the United States when Liu was 11 years old. in chemistry in the United States, is a pharmaceutical chemist, while his father is a computer engineer. He spent his childhood with his grandparents. The series is published by Simon & Schuster. Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty, which he describes as silkpunk. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies. 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